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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "30% for you " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • sawamaki_123@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "saraki latiff" <mallamsegun01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sawamaki_123@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:59:16 +0000
Subject: Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance.

From: MALLAM SARAKI WAZIRI
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
E-MAIL sawamaki_123@yahoo.fr

Dear Friend,

I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am mallam
saraki waziri, ACCOUNTANT GENERAL of Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso, I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

I honestly apologist and hope I don’t cause you much embarrassment by
contacting you through this means for a transaction of this magnitude, but
this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.

In November 28, 2003, a propriator of CICONEST consturction company and
prime minister ,Mr Rafik Hariri made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for
twelve calendar months, valued at US$55,000,000.00(thirty five Million
United States Dollars only) in my branch bank. It was to our utter surprise
that we heard of his sudden death .

On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL,
and hitherto, all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. Mr.
Rafik Hariri was residing at No 1 Rue de Nelson Mandela, G.R.A.
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the late Prime
Minister Mr. Rafik Hariri did not declare any next of kin or relations in
all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$55,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

No one will ever come forward to claim it. Consequently, my proposal is that
I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or business
partner to late prime minister Mr. Rafik Hariri so that the fruits of this
old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt executive
director officials of the bank.

We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and authorization
of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of
probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 65%
for me and 30% for you and 5% for Expenses Incurred in the course of the
transaction.

This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and
address, phone and fax numbers so that the attorney will prepare the
necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of
kin or business partner.

Your role in the transaction is to send an application for claim of the
funds to our bank. Then, as top officials of the bank, I shall work
behind-the-scene to make sure that your application is approved by the
management of the bank, and the funds transferred to your nominated bank
account.

Please note that there is no atom of risks at all as all the paperwork for
this transaction will be done legitimately and with my positions as top
officials of the bank would ensure a successful execution of this
transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately to my alternative email box.
Sawamaki_123@yahoo.fr

Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication. You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this
transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable
for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in
your country.

Profile of the Late Minister of Lebanon:

Rafik Bahaa Edine Hariri (November 1, 1944 - February 14, 2005), married to
Nazek Audi Hariri, was a Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon,
and was five times Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992-1998 and 2000-2004),
before his last resignation from office on October 20, 2004.

Hariri returned to Lebanon in 1992 as prime minister. He put the country
back on the financial map through the issuing of Eurobonds and won plaudits
from the World Bank for his plan to borrow reconstruction money.

Hariri served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998, then again
from 2000 until late 2004.

Amid the extension of President Emile Lahoud's term, Hariri resigned as
Prime Minister.

On February 14, 2005 Hariri was assassinated, along with at least 16 others,
when explosives equivalent to around 300 kg of C4 were detonated as his
motorcade drove near the Saint George Hotel in Beirut.

Hariri's contributions were numerous. Among the most notable is the fact
that he educated 32,000 Lebanese students inside and outside of Lebanon, and
spent millions of dollars of his own personal money to redefine the face of
social hierarchies in Lebanon. His education plan made possible the creation
of equal economic classes in Lebanon. He donated a great deal of money to
people, and invested in Lebanon when no one was interested in doing so. He
worked towards unity of the different religious and ethnic groups and
rebuilding.

Hariri was well regarded among international leaders counting French
President Jacques Chirac as a close friend, enjoying the envied record of
being the political figure most often received by the French President.

Fortune

By the 1980s, Hariri entered the Forbes top 100. Forbes estimated at $3.8
billion on its 2003 World's richest people.

Rafik Hariri had interests stretching from Riyadh to Paris to Houston. His
son Saad runs Saudi Oger, a USD $3.15 billion (sales) construction
conglomerate. Oger paid $375 million to increase its ownership in Arab Bank
in order to keep out interested Arab-American investors.

In 1990, on the occasion of the graduation of his son, Bahaa, from Boston
University, Mr. Hariri made the naming gift for what became The Rafik B.
Hariri Building, home of Boston University's School of Management. For more
information please log on to (http://www.hariri.info)

I look forward to your anticipation and prompt response.

Thanks and regards.
Mallam saraki waziri

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