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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: <mkh0001@ixp.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 03:48:23 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS ENQURIE




Attenion:

Sir/Madam,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to
overseas account ($35,000.000.00 USD) (Thirty Five Million United
States Dollars) from a Guarantee Trust Bank Ltd here in Nigeria,I want to
ask you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in
you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am Alh. Muhammad Khalil Hasan, the Auditor General of Guarantee Trust
Bank Ltd here in Nigeria. During the course of our auditing, I
discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1996 and since
1998 nobody has operated on this account again,after going through some
old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died
without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of
this account is Mr. Robert Chapman a Canadia and great industrialist.
He was African Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately
died in the plane crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory
Coast, January 30 2000. You will read more stories about the crash on
visiting this website, news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2 000/kenya2000.html
and also in this website, ww.sil.org/sil/news/2000/chapman.html where
Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall as
well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife there.

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well that until his death he has a Gold/Diamond Consulting firm. I
also found out that their only surviving daughter died last year. The
total amount involve is ($35,000.000.00 USD) (Thirty Five Million United
States Dollars) and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners
account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner, 1 am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I
shall give to you upon your positive response.

I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I
am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a
key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I
guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank
official Will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this
money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and
influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and
foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total
amount, 60% will be for us, I look forward to your earliest reply.

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Find in the attachment my Family Picture, to proof who I am.

Best Regards
Alh. Muhammad Khalil Hasan.

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