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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: "hamza amadu" <hamza_am@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:02:53 +0000
Subject: Courtesy of Business opportunity

FROM THE DESK OF DR HAMZA.
MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE.
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear Sir,/Madam,

Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire
to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free
transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention.

To be precise, I am (Dr HAMZA) the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign
Exchange/Remittance Department of (Bank of Africa) Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso,
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5m (twenty million
five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie
Pan American Airline plane crash.

Since we got 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 applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and
nobody has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of
kin which is Son died as well).

Therefore, upon this discovery I and other two officials in my department
now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by
contacting you.

We want you to purportedly apply to the bank as the next of Kin or relation
of the deceased so that we can prepare documentations and release the funds
(US$20.5musd) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement now
that the bank is in there third quater payment of the year since nobody is
coming for it and again we do not want the funds to go into the Governments
account as Unclaimed Bill.

The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned
or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all
money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury
Account.

Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into
Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before November 2006.
The reason for you to apply as the next of kin in occasioned by the fact
that the deceased customer was a foreigner.

Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as
follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, we
have agreed to give you twenty percent(30%) of the total sum, and 10% has
been set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the
process of this transaction and the remaining 60% shall be for my colleagues
and I.

In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After
you reply,we will send to you by email or fax the real text of the
application which you are going to fill and send to the bank.

I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in
order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality.
Trust to hear from you soon nest

Thanks
Yours truly,
Dr HAMZA(B.O.A)

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