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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: "Rev Father Mark" <revfathermark@churchnational.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:07:06 +0000
Subject: MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

ATTN:REV.FR. FRANK JOHN
St. Edward's Church
800 East Tyler St.
(75751)
MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
AND GUILD YOU IN YOUR BUISNESS AND WORKING PLACE

Notification of Bequest/payment(18.5m dollars). On behalf of the Trustes
and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. sunny zhong , I once again try to
notify
you as my earlier letter to you through the Post Office was returned
undelivered.

I hereby attempt to reach you via your e-mail address I wishto notify you
that late Engr.sunny zhong made you a beneficiary to his will. He left the
sum {18.5m}Dollars to you in the codicil and last
testament to his will.Being a widely travelled man, he must have been in
contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of
his numerous friends abroad who wished you
good.Engr.sunny zhong until his death was a former managing director and
pioneer staff of a giant

construction company. He was a very dedicated Christian who loved to give=
out.His great
philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time. Late Engr.
sunny zhong died on the 9th day of February 2003 at the age of 82 years,
and his Will is now ready for execution. According to him this money is to
support your Christian activities and to help the poor and the
needy. Please If I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavour to get back to me as
soon as possible to
enable the immediate execution of your portion of the bequest to enable
earlier disbursment by the

Paying Bank. You should foward along your telephone and fax
numbers,including in question and your crrent mailing address if different
from the above Proof of Identity should be either clergy ID or
International passportor drivers License.Send machine copy or dentity proof
by attachment via E-mail. On demand I would send you the Obituary notice of
Late
sunny zhong for your perusal and maybe you would recognise him . I hope to
hear from you in no distant time.

THANKS FOR YOURS CO-OPERATION

Yours in His service,
Rev Fr. MARK JOHN
Parish Priest

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