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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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • mmm13132003@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cliams_agent22@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:29:26 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20The=20Desk=20Of=3A=20Mr=20Emma=20Duke?=

From The Desk Of: Mr Emma Duke

Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc

32 Warf Road, Apapa

Lagos

E-mail: mmm13132003@yahoo.com


Hello,

I am Mr. Mr Emma senior manager accounts/audit department, in
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, who was a contractor
with
Shell-development Company in Nigeria and a personal friend died and
left
behind his deposit in this bank (UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC) valued USD
20,723,822.90.

I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business deal. In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of USD 20,723,822.90.,
(Twenty
Million, Seven Hundred and Twenty Three Thousand Eight Hundred and
Twenty-Two Dollars, Ninety Cents) only , in an account that belongs to
one
of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a
plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, the Late DR. GEORGE
BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but resident
here
in Nigeria, West Africa and a physician.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be
released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all
his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind to claim the money.

Therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank
account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money
Could
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into
the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and
maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin
in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was
a
foreigner 40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account. and 60 % would be for
me. There after I will come over to your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the relation or next of
kin
to
the deceased, indicating your claims and where the money will be
remitted into.

Upon receipt of your response indicating your willingness to work with
me, I will send to you by fax or email the contact information of my
bank manager which you will use to submit the application and I will
direct you on how to do that. I will not fail to bring to your notice
that
this transaction is strictly confidential and I will use my position in
this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund and that is to
say I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of
the
law.

Please get in touch with me through my email: and send to me your full
name telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this
transaction.
You can visit the website below for more information about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late
DR
GEORGE
BRUMLEY.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Awaiting your urgent reply

Thanks and my regards.

Mr.Emma Duke.

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