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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: "Mrs Janan Harb" <j_harb@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: harb@net.hr
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:39:43 +0000
Subject: Your Letter.

I AM CONTACTING YOU WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR AND NEVER HAVE YOU ENTERTAINED
ANY FEAR IN THIS
TRANSACTION, FOR THIS IS REAL AND GENUINE. ALL I NEED IS HONESTY AND YOUR
CAPABILITY TO HANDLE THIS
PROJECT ON MY FAMILY BEHALF.

Please kindly take a look at these web pages:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/14/nfahd14.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/14/ixhome.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0506/050615-fahd-divorce.html

Dear Beloved One,

Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and may
be Unbelief, owing largely to the atrocities people commit these days on the
Internet. But this mail
comes from a devastated, sorrowful and
emotional Laddered soul that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited
person to Wipe away my
tears, perhaps when I am gone beyond this sinful world by Investing jointly
as partners in your
country.

I am Mrs.Janan Harb I am the above named person. I was once married to King
Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz The
King of the Kingdom Of new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the 11th son of the
founder of the Saudi
kingdom, king Ibn Saud. Who has been on throne since 1982 till after his
death On the morning of 1st
August, 2005. Though he has been of and on the hospital since after his
stroke in the year 1995 and
was hospitalized twice in MAY 1999.

Before The divorce, He made me to understand that he deposited the sum
of (Twenty Seven Million British Pounds ) with a finance house in Oversea.
Please Sir, I Hereby
request for your urgent assistance to help me in this regards, investing the
Fund as a partnership
investment with your company or any investment that Both of us will benefit
from it.

Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the finance
House In Oversea. I don’t want any of husbands relatives to know about this
Development nor
the Government of Saudi Arabia. Please tell me in confidence, can you handle
it? Can you invest?
This huge amount of money successfully on behalf of my two daughters and me?
Have you ever handle
such amount of money before? How old are you? Please advise most Urgently.

With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply, I
will Furnish you with the information of my personal attorney who i have
entrusted every details
regarding this transaction and he will also issue you a power of attorney on
this regards, making
you the Original- beneficiary of this fund with other related documents.

Please reply through my personal email harb@net.hr

Yours in Sincerely,
Mrs. Janan Harb.
Email Personal: harb@net.hr

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