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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: "Douglas Owusu" <mrdouowusu61@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrdouglasowusu001@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 09:45:38 +0000
Subject: Awaiting your urgent response.

Mr. Douglas Owusu

Greetings to you,

My name is Douglas Owusu, the present branch Manager of a bank here in
Ghana. 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.
ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great industrialist and a resident of Munich, who
unfortunately lost his life along with his entire famillies in the plane
crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590 ] which crashed on 25TH JULY, 2000.
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site, which I got
during my investigation; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and
no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the
account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as
next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, 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.

Contact me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over
the details.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
Douglas Owusu.

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