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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: john_costas@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:32:49 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BENEFICIARY=20TO=20MY=20CLIENT?=

UBS INVESTMENT BANK OF SWISS .
E-MAIL: ubs_swiss@yahoo.ca
NAME : JOHN P. COSTAS .
Post :CEO/Chairman UBS Investment Bank of Swiss.
WEBSITE :http://www.ibb.ubs.com/index.shtml

Dearest Friend,

I am Mr JOHN P. COSTAS, I am the CEO/Chairman UBS Investment Bank of Swiss.
Being the special adviser and account officer to Mr Charles Mercier Adams
of your country. pls do not be afraid of my shock contact to you and accept
in good fate .I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for
you. On sept 26 ,2000, Mr Charles use to be an Oil consultant/contractor
with the Swiss Mining Corporation, Mr Charles Mercier made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty
Million Dollars) in our affilliated branch Bank .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,that
Mr. Charles Mercier died from an automobile accident. On further investigation,
I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace
his next of kin was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr Charles Mercier
did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his Bank Deposit paperwork . This sum of US$20,000,000.00 is still sitting
in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum
at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it . According
to Swiss Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert
to the ownership of the Swiss Government if nobody applies to claim the
fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to
stand in as the next of kin to Mr Charles Mercier so that the fruits of
this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your
full names and address ,telephone and fax numbers so that you can have contact
with the holding bank .

A bank account in any part of the world which you will provide will then
facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of
kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio
of 50% for me and45% for you and 5% for expencess we may incure during the
transfer of the fund into your account .There is no risk at all as all the
paperwork for this transaction will be provided to you and my position as
the Special Adviser guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply me immediately Upon your response, I
shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will
help you understand the transaction while you visit our bank site to confirm
my genuity.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction
would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance
to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply via a return
email to( ubs_swiss@yahoo.ca)and pls use this my private email address and
do not contact our office as you may understand this is a deal between two
of us alone . nobody in the bank knows about this business apart from you
and I . I hope you understand for security reasons .

Best Regards.
Mr. John P. Costas.





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