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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: marthakoroma_45@tiscali.it
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:51:29 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

From Tunde Abayomi,
20 SILVER CRESCENT,
Johannesburg,South Africa

Greetings to you!

I am a consulting auditor with one of the prime banks
here in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of my client bank who perished with
his whole families on 25TH JULY,2000 in CONCORDE PLANE
CRASH [Flight AF4590] with the whole passengers on
board.

During the course of my auditing work with my client
bank, I discovered an account opened in the bank in
1998 by this great late INDUSTRIALIST who died without
a written or oral 'WILL' attached to the account.
Since his death, I further investigated with keen
interest to see if i can get any relative of the late
industrialist but all has proved abortive as no one
has come to claim his funds and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and until his death
he was the CEO of his company.

The total amount involved is $36,000,000.00
USD.[Thirty Six Million United States Dollar]. We wish
to start the first transfer with $10,000,000.00[Ten
million] and upon successful transaction without any
disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.

I have secretly discussed this matter with a close
confidant attorney whom I must involve in order to
assist us produce legal back-up documents which would
substantiate your claims and also enable us have a
smooth and successful transfer of the fund to any
foreign bank account which you are going to nominate.

On this note, I decided to seek for a reliable
foreigner who will act as the foreign beneficiary of
the fund from the deceased by providing his/her bank
account where the fund will be transferred.
The banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than six years without claim hence the money
will be recalled to the government treasury as
unclaimed after this long period of dormancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal
search to see if you can assist by providing your safe
bank account for the transfer or find a reliable
person who will be capable of receiving such amount in
his or her personal account. At the conclusion of the
transfer 65% of the fund will be for me, I will give
you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity
both in Africa and in your country while the remaining
5% will be set aside to settle expenses both parties
might incure during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a
detailed information about the transaction. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this business is
100% risk and trouble free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you
apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from
the deceased.

When you receive this letter. I look forward to your
earliest reply through my private email address:
tundeabayomi55@yahoo.co.in

You should also include your private fax and phone
numbers for easy and safe communication.

Respectfully yours,
Tunde Abayomi


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