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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: "dr conrad cole" <drkcole2002@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: drconradcolepri@yahoo.com.au
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:23:01 -0800
Subject: I AM COUNTING ON YOU/Reply soon.

From the Auditor/Head
of computing department
Bank of Scotland
United Kingdom.
2 December, 2004.


For your kind attention,

Request for an urgent assistance/investment cum joint
venture.


In order to transfer out (fifteen million pounds sterling) from our
bank here I have the courage to look for a reliable and honest person who

will be capable for this important transaction, believing that you will

never let me down either now or in future.

I am the auditor and head of computing department of a bank here in
Scotland, United Kingdom. There is an account opened in this bank in 1995

and since my inception into office in 2001, nobody has operated on this

account again, after going through some old files, I discovered that if

i do not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for
nothing. The government could confiscate it.

How the money came about:

The owner of this account was Mr. John Hughes who was a foreigner and
the manager of Petrol chemical service here in London, a chemical
engineer by profession and he died since 1995.And then, since 2001, nobody

knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has
no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
his company does not know anything about this account and the amount
involved is (15,000,000.00) pounds sterling.
I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but i

don't know any foreigner, i am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to any local bank here in Scotland,

but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is
pounds sterling?s and the former owner of the account is John Hughes and

he was a foreigner too.
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't
know our selves before neither have we let, but be sure that it is real

and a genuine business. I believe in God that you will never let me
down in this investment.

When the transfer is approved and payment schedule allocated overseas,

through the offshore paying delegate for final clearance and signing of

the payment release form by the beneficiary, i want us to see at the
oversea payment clearance office face to face for signing of the
original binding agreement to bind us together so that, we can receive this

money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund

will be remitted. I am contacting you because of the need to involve a
foreigner with a foreign account as the real beneficiary. i need your
co-operation to make this work fine, because the management is ready
to approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct
information to this account, which i will
Give to you when sure of your capability to handle such amount in
strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and my advise for

our mutual benefit because I don't want to make any mistake, I need your

strong assurance and trust. I shall destroy all documents concerning
these transactions immediately we receive this money leaving no trace at

all.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the
legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with

appropriate clearance from foreign payment department. With assurance
that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your
country for the sharing and possible investments.

please do reply me through : drconradcolepri@yahoo.com.au

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Dr Conrad Cole


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