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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: harry_anyi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:06:28 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=20NEEDED?=

MR HARRY ANYI
Email:harryanyi@yahoo.com
TEL;234-8033-763-033

Attention,Dear Partner

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

My name is Harry Anyi, I am the credit manager in a bank here in
the West Africa. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum
of money from a deceased account.Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitud will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that everything has been well taken care off, and all will be well at the
end of the day.

I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.To ease
your apprehension, I got your contact from the British chambers of commerce
and industry, foreign trad division. PROPOSITION; I am the account officer
of a foreigner named George E.Thomas who died in an air crash along with
his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers on board.

You can confirm this from the website below which was published byCNN.WEBSITE;http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.
html Since his death, none of his next-of-kin appears to make claims for
this money as his heir.(May his soul rest in peace).We cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin
to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a nextof
kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out
by a lawyer for the funds Twenty- Eight million. Five Hundred Thousand United
States dollars (US$28,500,000.00) in a domiciliary account to be released
in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. Because after
four years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed
bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank.

so it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used
as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank
directors to share this money among themselves. It may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any
of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message
in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me
with the following informations if you are interested.


1.A Beneficiary name.In order for me to prepare the PAPER WORK for transferof
the fund in your name.
2.Details particulars of your contact address.
3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;.For our personal contact.

I shall be compensating you with 25% of the total sum on final
conclusion of this project for your assistance, as I have also thought of
doling out 5% to charity organisation from your locality based on your recommendation
another 5% for the services of the lawyer while the balance 65% shall be
for me for investment purposes in your country as i cannot bring back this
cash to my country. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please
endeavor to contact me immediately.

Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you by informing
you of this transaction from my bank as I will advise you to kindly desist
from responding at all if you do NOT intend to render any assistance.

Endeavour to respond via my secured E-mail:-(harryanyi@yahoo.com)

Thanks and best regards,

Mr. Harry Anyi.



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