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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "there are practically no risks involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Richard Kofi Addo" <addok28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrrichard2@katamail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:06:12 +0000
Subject: Please read and get back immediately its very important.

Greetings and Happy new year,

I write to seek your services in a private and confidential matter regarding
some funds unaccounted for in our bank here in Ghana during the last 2006
business year. As a Regional Manager in this Bank, I deposited this fund in
an ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT at our headquarters pending when I shall get a
reliable person. This requires a private arrangement. Could you perhaps be
able to receive these funds under legal claims then I will fill you in. I
will appreciate for fewer questions asked and your participation will be 30%
of the total money.

There are practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer. I have all the details and
will fill you in if you are really willing. Your major role would be to
provide an existing account or open a new bank account where the funds will
be transferred and stand as the original depositor of this fund in our bank,
as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down
either now or in future.

At this juncture, I wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal.
I have a 9yrs old daughter who has leukemia, a disease of the blood, and she
needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to
be done in any good children's hospital in your Country, if there is one.
Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job
and bring my family to start a new life in your country all correspondences
will be via email for now.

The funds in question are quite large,Ten million eight hundred and fifty
thousand United States Dollars ($10,850,000.00).I will expect a straight
answer from you. If yes, please get back to me so
that we can work out the modalities without further delay.

With best regards,

Mr. Richard Kofi Addo

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