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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: "Mr.Johnson Gube" <jgube_111@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: transferproject1952@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:47:17 +0100
Subject: From Mr.Johnson

FROM:MR.JOHNSON GUBE
GRAND FINANCE AND TRUST BANK.
RUE CLUB DE L' AMITIE,
0251 B.P. 1625 COTONOU,
BENIN REPUBLIC.
TELEX: 5394
SWIFT: GRAFITR CTNOU

ATTEN:

RE: TRANSFER OF US$28.5MILLION FROM MY BANK.

Compliments Of The Day, Permit me to introduce myself to you.

I am MR.JOHNSON GUBE, the director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of GRAND FINANCE AND TRUST BANK Benin, in West Africa, and also a special account officer of Mr. Hassan Balhas Ghadar, a Lebanese.

I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle an important and confidentail assingment with me.

MY PROPOSITION: A Lebanese, Mr.Hassan Balhas Ghadar,a Seasoned Contractor with Benin Cement Company here in Benin Republic had in our Bank the sum of $28.5million in a domiciliary account.

unfortunately he died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the december 25,2003.

You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website:

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/

Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Mr.Ghadar had a fixed deposit account of $28.5million in a domiciliary account with the bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash.

Efforts had been made by the management of my bank through the Lebanese Embassy to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail.
Given the skeletal information available to the bank,it has so
far been impossible to reach any of his relatives.

The situation left for my Bank Management is to declare the deceased account dormant or confiscate it and revert the funds to trading for interest to the Bank.

In order to avoid this development, I now seek your approval to have you stand as a distant relative and next of kin to Mr. Hassan Balhas Ghadar,so that the money would be released to you.

All necessary legal documents and proofs to enable you get the money will be carefully packaged once I receive your interest in this proposal.I shall apply for a leave as soon as the funds get into your reliable account to come to your country for sharing and investments which you will assist me in doing.Your share will be 30% of the total sum while I will be entitled to 70%.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. All documents of transaction will be destroyed immediately we receive this money in your account leaving no trace to any place.

May I assure you that this is safe and risk-free, as I have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free movement.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.
If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email your following information to me:

a. Complete names
b. Private telephone number
c. Private fax number
d. Private email

Call me immediately to show that you have recieved this mail and I will brief you
more on the successful transfer process and reply through
my private email navigator: transferproject1952@latinmail.com

Best Regards,

Mr.JOHNSON GUBE

Phone Number:+229-40 35 48

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