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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "isaac khumalo" <khumaloisaac03@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:40:00 +0000
Subject: Hello sir/mada, urgent reply is needed

FROM: Mr khumalo Isaac
Manager FNB Bank Ltd,
112 plane street johannesburg,
South Africa.
Email: khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com

URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Dear, I am Mr. Khumalo Isaac, Manager of Bills/Exchange at the foreign
remittance department of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED (FNB).

In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of$20,000,000.00 (Twenty
Million, United State Dollars ) in an account that belonged to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on November 2002,
in a ghastly plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have
been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because we
can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, Unfortunately,
nobody has come forward to claim this money.

It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.

Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of some years, is deemed closed
and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.

Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an unclaimed fund on or before December 2006. The
reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned
by the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total
sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties at
the course of this transaction.

Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness
and interest to participate in this business. After receiving your reply,
you will be communicated to with the exact steps to take.

I expect your urgent response to my confidential e-mail address at
khumalo_isaac@yahoo.com to enable us to conclude this transaction urgently
without any hitch.

Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons and acknowledge receipt of this message and in acceptance of our
mutual business, Endeavor to furnish me with the following information below
if you are interested.
[1.] A BENEFICIARY NAME, In order for me to prepare the Document for
transfer of the funds in your name.
[2]. DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, For our personal Contact and mutual
trust in each other.
[3] YOU HAVE TO SCAN AND SEND ME YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY FOR MORE
CLERIFICATION.
[4] SEND TO ME ALL YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION, [e.g] YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBERS
AND BANK ADDRESS IN YOUR COUNTRY.
[5] YOUR BANK TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.
[6] YOUR BANK ACCOUNT SWIFT CODE, it will enable the said fund come into
your destinated account directly.


Best Regards,
MR. MR KHUMALO ISAAC

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