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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "michael boateng" <michaelandboateng705@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michaelandboateng1981@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:24:32 +0100
Subject: Dear Elder

Dear Elder,
It is with great honour and priviledge that I write you.I am Mr.Michael
Boateng,age;34 years and a junior bank staff of the treasury
department,International commercial bank Ltd,Accra,Ghana which is one of
Ghana's leading retail bank withover 30 branches scattered across Ghana.I
humbly solicit for your confidentiality in what I have to tell you as my
good findout in my department.
Every five years,Ghanian banks transfer to its treasury millions of dollars
of unclaimed deceased depositors funds in compliance with the banking laws
and guidelines, in majority of cases with referece to all retail banks in
Ghana, the money normally runs into several millions of dollars.A national
of your country,late MR.HERBERT ELDER,was a Gold Investor/Contractor with
Ghana Trade and Investment Corporation who had a permanent resident permit
in Ghana until his death in October 2003 as a result of his diagnosed
cancer.He had a closing balance of $9,375,640(Nine Million,Three Hundred and
Seventy-Five Thousand,six hundred and forty dollars) .Since his death,the
bank has been expecting a next of kin to him to come and claim his money in
the bank but up till this time of writing no next-of-kin of relative of the
deceased has come forward to claim his money with us.Thus,I bent on
searching through the internet to see if I could locate any of the deceased
relatives and on one of such searches,I saw your email address and I decided
to seek your consent to act as next of kin to the deceased since you bear
the same last name with him. However,as an insider,I will guide you on how
you proceed to enable you claim the money as your inheritance fund and it
will be transferred into your account.
On the comfirmation of the money in your bank account,I shall proceed on
applying for my annual leave to procure a visa so as to come to your country
to collect my own share of the money which I will invest in a profitable
business venture in your country and I will rely on your advice.

Regards,
Michael Boateng

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