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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: "Prince Jefri Bolkiah" <princejefri001@excite.com>
Reply-To: princejefri001@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:08:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: With Due Regards


With Due RegardsI am Prince Jefri Bolkiah, former Finance Minister of Brunei, the tiny oil-rich sultanate on the Gulf Island. I will save your time by not amplifying my extended royal family history, which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute that erupted between me and brother, the sultan of Brunei Sheik Muda Hassanal Bolkiah.As you may know from the international media, the sultan had accused me wrongly of financial mismanagement and impropriety of US$14.8 Billion dollars. Which i don't know about.However i and my Family has been kept under house arrest, all my bank accounts has been frozen except one of my account with a Bank which i will later let you know if you will be ready to help me, and private my Properties including a crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate.Furthermore during this unfortunate period, I have no access to a phone but I have a Palm hand-held computer from which I am
sending you this mail, and of which i was able to surf out your email address.In my remaining account of which one body knew about now i am having Thirty Seven Million Pounds worth with the Bank.Hence I seek your good assistance to help me claim this money from the Bank by you acting as my NEXT OF KIN I will provide to you their contact address and also i will contact them to allow you claim the funds on my behalf.I will give you 40% of the money while you will help me keep the remaining 60% so that when all is over i will have money to live on.I know it may sound too good to believe due to what is really going on around the Internet, it has been greatly abused but It still remain the safest way in contact.Please I count on your absolute confidentiality, transparency and trust while looking forward to your prompt reply towards a swift conclusion of this business transaction, so that i can provide to you the Bank email address so that you contact them on my
behalf.Thanks.Prince Jefi Bolkiah. You can visit the websites below for a better understanding of the situation.http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.brunei.jefri.html

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