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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: DELMEL2004 <DELMEL2004@terra.es>
Reply-To: demelhiranya@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:04:36 +0100
Subject:

Blessed Year
X-Accept-Language: es
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Mr.De Mel Hiranya
International Commercial Bank
China,100 Chi Lin Rd.
Taipei 104 Taipei Taiwan.

Attention:

I am Mr.De Mel Hiranya, Bank Manager of International
Commercial Bank of China,100 Chi Lin Rd. Taipei 104
Taipei Taiwan . I have urgent and very confidential
business proposition for you.A British Oil
consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals
Corporation,Mr Raymond Beck made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued
at US$30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Dollars) in my
branch. 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, the Chinese
Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr.Raymond
Beck died in a plane crash along with his wife Mr and
Mrs Raymond & Dorene Beck in EgyptAir Flight 990,1999
air crash(for more information about
this crash and person you can contact this website:
http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm
Since we got this information about his death.
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.Raymond
Beck did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents, including his Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$30,000,000.00 is
still sitting in my 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 Laws of Republic of China, at the
expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to
the ownership of the Chinese Government if nobody
applies to claim the fund. The Senior Executive Vice
President Mr.Sheng-Yih Hu (Owen) is willing to give it
to the government to have is own cut too.You can
check the site http://www.icbc.com.tw/ Quick Menu
About ICBC Senior Management Profiles so that you know
this person.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr.Raymond
Beck so that the fruits of this old man's labor 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 so that the attorney will
prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that
will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall
employ the services of an attorney for drafting and
notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary
documents and letter of probate/administration in
your favor for the transfer.
A bank account in any part of the world that 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 60% for me and 40% for you.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the attorney and my
position as the Branch Manager Guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction. If you are
interested, please reply immediately via the private
email address below.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more
details and relevant documents that will help you
understand the transaction. Please send me your
confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication. Please observe utmost confidentiality,
and be 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
delmelhi@hotmail.com or
demel@intcomercialbank.com

Best Regards,
De Mel Hiranya.

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