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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Sabastian Adigwe" <sabastian_ad@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: customerservice@mail.az
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:45:01 +0100
Subject: Acknowlegde Receipt


Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Sebastian Adigwe, the Executive Director,
Corperate and Investment Banking, of Afribank
Nigeria Plc, a well- known bank in Nigeria. One of
our accounts with a holding balance of Money Valued
USD35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Dollars only)
has been dormant and has not been operated for the
past six years.

From my investigations and confirmations, the owner
of this account,a foreigner died in January 31 2000
in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 and
since then nobody has done anything as regards the
claiming of this money because he has no family
members who are aware of the existence of the account
nor the funds.

Also Information from the National Immigration stated
that he was also single on entry into Federal
Republic of Nigeria.

I have secretly discussed this matter with some of
the bank officials and we agreed to find a reliable
foreign partner to deal with.In fact we could have
done this deal alone but because of our position in
this country as civil servants, we are not allowed
to operate a foreign account and that would
eventually raise an eye brows on our side during the
time of transfer since we still work in this bank,
this is the actual reason why we required a second
party or fellow who will assist us forward claims as
the next of kin with informations which will be made
available to you.

We thus propose to do this business with you,
standing in as the next of kin of the deceased, for
the funds to be released to you after due processes
have been followed. This transaction is totally
risk and trouble free as the fund is legitimate and
does not originate from drugs, money laundering,
terrorism or any other illegal act.

The sharing of the fund between us, is as follows;
40% of the total sum will go to you for your effort
and commitment to the success of this transaction.
60% for me and my collague's.

As soon as i receive an acknowledge of the receipt
of this message in Acceptance, i will immediately
start up with the processing of the document of
cliams. Please forward your reply to

Best Regards
Mr. Sebastian Adigwe
Executive Director
Corperate/Investment Banking
Afribank Nigeria Plc
http://www.afribank.com/boardmgt.htm

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