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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: "HASSAN BILLY" <mr_hassanbilly10@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:40:34 +0000
Subject: PLEASE, TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM THE DESK OF MR HASSAN BILLY
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK INTERNATIONAL OF BURKINA (B.I.B)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO

DEAR FRIEND,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.

However after series of petition was received by this present regime
from foreign contractors for the inability of the BANK INTERNATIONAL OF
BURKINA (B.I.B) to fulfilled their obligation for the payment to its foreign
creditors. in conjunction with the council of ministers, has mandated us to
carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to
foreign contractors and to effect payments immediately.

During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$5.5
(Five million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a
plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane Crash and the Deceased DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY AND HIS FAMILY.

http://www.wgcltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1367903

http://www.wral.com/news/2345844/detail.html

It is therefore upon this discovery that, I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 60% would be for me,
there after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased,
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the
money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and you should keep this
transaction (TOP SECRET) and this transaction will only take us 14 banking
days because as a banker, I know what to do and move the fund into your
account without any delay and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send
you the text of the application to apply to the bank and you should also
contact me through this my private e-mail box :
f_remit_dept_bib1@hotmail.com


Yours faithfully,
MR HASSAN BILLY,
Bill & Exchange Manager.

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