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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Isaac Asare" <asare_01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: isaacasare006@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:16:26 +0000
Subject: I wait for your response.

Greetings to you,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. 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 Mr. Isaac Asare, the
present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana. 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 Kumasi who passed on, so that
was how I became the present Manager and discovered a fortune. As I resumed
duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $12,500,000 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.
Emad Chaudhary, an Iraqi citizen who unfortunately lost his life and that of
his family during the War in Iraq. The account is an escrow fixed deposit
account, and no other person in my bank knows about the death of Mr. Emad
Chaudhary. The account has no other beneficiary and I have kept a close
monitoring of the account since then and nobody from Iraq has come forward
to ask about the money as next of kin to the late Mr. Emad Chaudhary,
meaning that no one is aware of the account.

I cannot 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. I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next
of kin to the account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds
to you. There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of law.Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent
response.

Regards,

Isaac Asare

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