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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: "micheal egobia" <micheal_egobia1@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:39:49 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSITANCE IN METRO BANK OF TOGO

PRIVATE EMAIL WERE YOU CAN CONTACT ME MICEGOBIA@HOTMAIL.COM

I AM MR MICHEAL EGOBIA AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING IN METRO BANK TOGO
FOREIGNREMITTANCE DEPATMENT TOGO
S.A 20 RUE DU COMMERCE BP.346 LOME -TOGO WEST AFRICA.

Dear friend,

I am writing following the impressive information about your profile through
the website your capability and reliability to champion this opportunity. In
my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (8.5 million US dollars).
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along
with his entire family in 31st OCTOBER 1999 in a PLANE CRASH. Since we got
this information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to
come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the accident
leaving no body behind to claim the money. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and other officials in my department 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 we don t want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed bills. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates
that if such money remained unclaimed after long period, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot stand as
next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 30% of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction
and 60 % would be for me . Thereafter I will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages 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 private,
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to
you by fax or e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch free and that you should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter. I decided to contact you as you have products of interest in
your part of the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid
peoples awareness as we are civil servants. We can conclude this operation
withing ten banking days. Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for
more information, By phone 002289273855 all confirmable before you apply if
you want.May God be with you. Trusting to hear from you shortly. Peace and
love always. PRIVATE EMAIL WERE YOU CAN CONTACT ME MICEGOBIA@HOTMAIL.COM

TELE PHONE 002289273855

Best regards
MR MICHEAL EGOBIA

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