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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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Fraud email example:

From: BASEKI JERRY <jerrybaseki_29@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 04:54:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP From Mr.JERRY BASEKI.


FROM MR.JERRY BASEKI.
FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGER,
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA(BIA),
LOME-TOGO.

Dear Partner, I presumed that all is well with you and your family.

Please let this do not be a surprise message to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magintude and lucrative transaction for our present and future survival in life.Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

I am the Chief Auditor of Bill and EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of Twenty-Five Million, United States of America ($25,000,000.00 ) for our present and future success.

This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago.Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2007.

Informed clearly that it was stated in our Foreign banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 4 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund.However, it is not authorized by the rules guiding our bank for a citizen of TOGO to make the claim of the fund unless your are a foreigner no matter the country different from the deceased.So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the next of kin to the deceased.

When the fund is transferred into your account, { 35% } Thirty Five Percent will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the transfer of the fund into your account and provision of the bank account where the bank will remit the fund into,{ 50% } Fifty Five Percent will be for me being the pioneer of the business while { 10% } Ten Percent will be shared to respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity , Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless disabled people around us in the World Then remaining ( 5%) Will be for any expences that will incured in the process of claiming the fund from the bank.

If you are really sure of your, Trustworthy, Accountability and confidentiality on this transaction,contact me and accept not to change your mind to cheat, or disappoint me when the fund is transferred into your account.So reply for the assurance with your telephone and fax numbers necessary to facilitate an easy communication.

As soon as you reply me i will let you know the next procedures to be follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately. I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Jerry Baseki.



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