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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: haafkens07@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 00:27:54 +0100
Subject: HELLO

From:Mrs Caroline Solange Haafkens of Nederlanden

I am the above named person from Nederlanden. I am married to Dr.Franklyn
Haafkens who worked with
canada Embassy in Africa for nine years before he died in the year 2000.
We were married for eleven
years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only
four days.

Before his death we were both born again christians.Since his death I decided
not to re-marry
or get a child outside my matrimonial home . When my late husband was alive
he deposited the sum of (Twenty four Million six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars)with
a bank in Africa.

Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote
me as the beneficiary to come
forward to receive the money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to
somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing
treatment for cancer of the
lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me
that I have only a few
months to live.

It is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations.
Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since
my illness, I cannot live with the
agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please,I beg
you in the name of God to
help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued from the bank and
distribute it accordingly.

I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches,orphanages
and widows
propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.
The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth.I
took this decision because I
don't have any child that will inherit this money.

My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. whoever that
wants to serve the Lord must
serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your
life. Any delay in your
reply will give me room in sourcing for another person for this same purpose.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

I await your urgent reply.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs Caroline Solange Haafkens




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