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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.
  • richardwilliamson_office01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Williamson" <richardwilliamsones10@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: richardwilliamson_office01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:02:57 +0100
Subject: Attn: Friend/Important Notice,

Attn: Friend/Important Notice,

I am Mr.Richard Williamson,an Administrative Officer with a Diplomatic
Fiduciary/Security company in London.My duty involves administrative
documentation of Valuable Deposits in the company.In the Course of My
Private Routine investigations to ascertain the nature and other relevant
information on unclaimed Deposit/Consignment,I noticed that there had been a
particular Deposit/consignment Lodged in the company on the 30th May,2001
(With a Maturity Date of November,2005) and which no one had since come
forth to claim.

Upon Further Investigation,I found out that the Depositor/Beneficiary of the
Deposit/consignment,the Late Mr.Ben,a nationale of your country who was the
C.E.O of BIO OIL SERVICING COMPANY SA in South Africa was aboard the ill
fated Beirut-bound charter jet that crashed on the 25th of December 2003 in
Benin Republic.Details of this incidence could be found on the following

url;http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

At the time of Deposit,the Depositor did not state or fill out any next of
kin on the Deposit Document that was signed.Thus,the Deposit was tagged
under DIPLOMATIC VALUABLES/FAMILY TREASURES Valued at US$7,500,00000.However
,In My Bid to further ascertain the content of the deposit since the
Maturity Date for keeping the Deposit had expired and no Known Next of Kin
has filed an Application for Release of the Claims,I discovered that the
consignment contains Funds in US Dollars bills.

Judging from the Stated Value of this Deposit,I deduced that the contents of
the Consignment were actually Funds totalling US$7,500,000.00 and had to be
Lodged as DIPLOMATIC VALUABLES/FAMILY TREASURES for Security Reasons.Due to
the Strategic Position which I occupy in the Company,All
these facts are known to Me Alone and I have worked out the perfect modality
as well as providing the relevant information/documentation for the
successful Release of the eposit/Consignment.Now,I seek your
assistance/partnership to claim the said Deposit/Consignment from the
company.

For Your Co-Operation and Assistance,I have proposed an arrangement where by
40% of the Funds will be for You, while the balance of 60% being my Own
share of the Funds will be held in Trust for me pending my arrival in Your
Country.Subject to your acceptance to participate in this transaction,I
shall brief You on the Modalities for actualising this Transaction.Please
get in touch with me with your Phone and fax numbers for further
communication.You may reach me through my
email:(richardwilliamson_office01@yahoo.co.uk).

Mr.Richard Williamson

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