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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.
• 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.
  • akinbaye30@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BANK OF JAPAN" <ckuaro@boj.or.jp> (may be fake)
Reply-To: akinbaye30@yahoo.com, paulrice4real@terra.com.mx
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:03:20 +0100
Subject: FROM MRS Cynthia Kuaro

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:

This e-mail message is from Mrs. Cynthia David .This message is for
the sole
use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and
privileged information. Any review,use,distribution or disclosure by
others is strictly
prohibited.If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to
receive
for the recipient),please contact the sender by reply email and delete
all
copies of this message.

Greetings to you,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is
only a day that people meet and become great friends and business
partners.My name
is Mrs. Cynthia Kauro, the present branch Manager of the Bank of Japan
here in
Asia.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I
can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I
said, I
have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is
required as a foreigner.

I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last
December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in
Kobe Japan.

I became the present Manager and discovered a fortune. As I resumed
duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $13.5 million that has
not been operated on for the past 4 years.From my investigation,I found
out that this account belongs to one Late Mr.
Ziya Bazhayev a big time Oildealer, who unfortunately lost his life in
the Yak-40jetliner on March 9, 2000. You will read more news about the
crash
on visiting these site;

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml

http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml.

I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and nobody
has come forward to claim the money as next of kin to the late Mr.
Ziya
Bazhayev meaning that no one is aware of the account. I can not
directly take out
this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am
contacting
you for an assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the
Manager of my bank branch, I have the power to influence the release
of the
funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the
account,
with
the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give
you.I am
seeking your co -operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account.
There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach
of
law.If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us
to
share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied.
Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work
together,so as to give you more details.

Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.

Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,

Mrs. Cynthia Kuaro

NOTE: YOU ARE HIGLY ADVICE TO CONTACT ME ON MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL:
akinbaye30@yahoo.com

Here is my bank Web Address:
http://www.boj.or.jp

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