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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • razaq@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "akilo razaq" <akil_razaq.2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: akil_razaq@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:28:02 +0000
Subject:

>From The Desk Of AKIL RAZAQ
Senior Staff In File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
This is my private e mail AKIL_ RAZAQ@YAHOO.CO.UK
Private Number......00226 76
04 22 77.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
Compliment Of The Season,

On a very good day. I am (AKIL RAZAQ) a senior staff in file department in
African developent bank (ADB).I got your contact from a Yahoo google Search.

When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability and
reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God or
Allah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15
million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in (friday december 26,2003 ) in a plane crash. Since we got information
about his death,

we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department
now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision
of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the
business and 60 % would be for ;me and my woman colleague. There after I and
my colleague will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of
the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will
send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to
bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer.

You should contact me on my number 00226 76 04 22 77.immediately as soon
as you receive this letter. reply me with this e mail address
AKIL_ RAZAQ@YAHOO.CO.UK
immediately.


Yours faithfully,
AKIL RAZAQ

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