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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • samahshemmari@i12.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: samah shemmari <samahshemmari74@msn.com>
Reply-To: <samahshemmari@i12.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:20:56 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,



Dear Friend,



samahshemmari@i12.com



I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal, I Got your e-mail address in Internet while browsing after I decided to contact you and ask for your assistance in this urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality,

I am Mr.Samah Shemmari,the Branch manager, National Bank of abu dhabi (NBAD) Media City Branch (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES), married with two children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department,

On June 6, 1999, an America Oil consultant/contractor with Petroleum Corporation, Mr.Edmond Greish Magdy, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calendar months, in my branch upon maturity. I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation that Mr.Edmond Greish Magdy, died in the plane crash On October 31, 1999, (an Egyptian Boeing 767 Flight 990) with other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the website below

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

Most asttorning of my discovery was that, all records bear no next of kin, meaning no member of Mr.Edmond Greish Magdy family knows about the deposit therefore ,no member of his family will ever come forward to claim the money, In order for the bank not to transfer the said sum as unclaimed funds to the emirates treasury account, the above stated funds most be claimed immediately by somebody standing in as late Mr.Edmond Greish Magdy,Next of Kin, because According to (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LAW), at the expiration of (TEN) years; the money will revert to the ownership of the (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund,

This revelation is only known to me because I was his personal account officer before I was posted to become the branch manager , now I seek your collaboration to act act as next of kin to late Mr.Edmond Greish Magdy to claim the funds and move them into useful investments, we shall split the cash between our self upon the confirmation of the money into your account,

Please note that by the virtue of my position in the bank , I have worked out the perfect modality as well as I shall provide the relevant information's and documents for the successful claim and transfer of the funds in the account that will be provided by you, I can not stand in the forefront of this transaction because I work with the bank ,that is why I have come to you, for assistance be rest assured that this project involve no risk to you, upon the receipt of your acceptance mail ,I will like you to provide me with the following details, bellow to my private email :

(1) your direct mobile/fax number.

(2) your name and country resident address.

(3) Your private E-mail box.

Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any delay. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality . I shall send you copy of the deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit was made
for your perusal. I wait your urgent response at my confidential

PLEASE FOR SECURITY REASONS REPLY ME VIA MY PRIVATE EMAIL samahshemmari@i12.com

Regards,

Mr.Samah Shemmari

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