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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• 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.
  • mrtalbotedward@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrtalbot edward" <mrtalbotedward77@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrtalbotedward@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:51:53 +0000
Subject: Dearest

Mr. TALBOT EDWARD
PRIVATE BANKERS,
7, WINDMILL ST,SOHO,
LONDON,W1T 2JD.
RC NO :P/B -0034 -GBN.

Dearest,

I have a proposal for you, it is neither mandatory nor will I in any manner
compel you, against your wish to honor it. I know that the contents of this
mail might sound strange to you, but every word of it is true. I am Mr.
Talbot Edward, the former credit officer of one of the leading British based
private investment bankers. I have a concealed business suggestion for you.

Before the plane crash that killed Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic on February
26, 2004, Dimka Ilkova Boskovic from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Macedonia and also a business woman made a fixed deposit for 12 calendar
months, with a value of Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only, in my branch. You will more information on Mrs. Dimka
Boskovic’s death on the link below as published.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-64C8ML?OpenDocument

My appointment at the bank was terminated when I disclosed to the British
Treasury Department officials that were on routine inspection of my banks,
that the above funds have been dormant for the past two years and should be
declared as unclaimed funds. Before this incidence, the board of directors
of my bank adopted a resolution mandating me, as the account officer to
Mrs.Dimka Ilkova Boskovic, to provide her next of kin so that her funds can
be transferred to them.

I was unable to get any of her next of kin because Mrs. Dimka Ilkova
Boskovic did not declare any next of kin in all her official account
documents including the deposit slip. And she also confided in me that no
one except me knew of the deposit in my bank. This has made it impossible to
locate or appoint any of her relation as next of Kin.

Now the sum of Nine Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is
still lying in the bank vault and no one will ever come forward to claim it.
What bothers me most is that the directors will in the next one month invoke
the abandoned property acts of 1991 to confiscate and declare the funds
‘unclaimed’ after the expiration of the mandatory period.

Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, I was fortunate to come across
your name. My suggestion to you is that you stand as the next of kin to Mrs.
Dimka Ilkova Boskovic.

I have all the necessary documents and information which will enable you put
in a successful application as the next of kin. Payment will then be made to
you and that will stop these evil directors from confiscating the funds.
With the documents and information at my disposal couple with the help of my
friend in the bank, nothing will ever stop you from succeeding in claiming
this deposit in the next two weeks if we apply with your name.

All I require for us to succeed is your honest cooperation, trust and
assurance that you will not cheat me out of the deposit when payment is made
to you. The application will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and me, from any breach of the law.

Be Inform also, that we shall share the funds in the ratio of 70% for me and
25% for you, while 5% should be for expenses and tax as I understand you may
need to pay taxes on the funds when it gets to your country.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue. I will disclose more information to you as soon as you signify your
interest. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated via my
private email address: mrtalbotedward@yahoo.co.uk

Kind regards,

Mr. Talbot Edward.

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