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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: Dr hassan Aliou <drhassanaliou1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:14:06 +0100 (BST)
Subject: pls reply soon.


ATTN.Dear Friend,



From DR,Hassan Aliou.

RE: TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00 USD} TWENTY SIXMILLION DOLLARS.I want to transfer ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty sixmillion United States Dollars from a Bank herein Dakar Senegal to oversea account. First, I mustsolicit your strictest confidence in thistransaction.This is by virtue of it's nature as beingutterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence ofyour ability andreliability to prosecute a transaction of this greatmagnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer thesaid amount into your safe account for unwardinvestment.You can either provide us with an existingaccount or to set up a new Bank account immediately toreceive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remainhonest to me till the end for this important businesstrusting in you and believing that you will never letme down either now or in future.I am the personal account officer to a great lateINDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of the topbanks here in S!
enegal.
The account was opened in1996 and he died in 1998 without a written or oralWILL and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if Ido not remit this money out urgently it will beforfeited for nothing since the bankhas been sold on Wed, 19 Mar 2003 to another bank andthe management of the bank is now ready to release thefund to any foreigner who has the correct informationof the account before fully handing over themanagement to the new bank.The owner of this account is a foreigner and no otherperson knows about this account or anything concerningit, the account has no other beneficiary and until hisdeath he was the manager of the company . My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he wassingle as at the point of his entry into the Republicof senegal. The amount in this account is USD$26Million ( Twenty six Million United States Dollars )only.As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer
thisfund abroad for investment. Your assistance as aforeigner is necessary because the management of thebank will welcome any foreigner who has correctinformation to this account which I will give youimmediately, if you are interested to do this businesswith me.There is no risk to this business. With my positionand my personal contact with the manager of the bank,the money can be transferred to any account you canprovide with assurance that this money will be intactpending our physical arrival in your country forsharing.We will start the first transfer with Six million[$6,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, weshall re-apply for the payment of the remainingbalance of $20 million to your account. I am onlycontacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can onlybe approved to any foreigner who has thecorrect information of the account which I willprovide to you.So you should provide me wi!
th your
correct accountdetail where you will like the fund to be transferredor you can set up a new account for the transfer evenan empty account is ok.At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 35%for you, 5% for any expenses incurred in this business and the remaining60% for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon yourstrong assurance that you will not let me down oncethe fund goes into your account I will then start toprocess the transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.Contact me urgently for further detail.Thanks. Yours Faithfully, DR,Hassan Aliou.

















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