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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: mrcharleszulu@canada.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:05:07 +0200
Subject: I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU:

Mr. Charles Zulu
Branch Manager
First National Bank (FNB).
FirstNational Avenue Johannesburg
Branch, South Africa.
Email:Charleszuluonline@yahoo.co.uk
Email:charles_zulu01@yahoo.com
............................................................................................................................................

I am Mr. Charles Zulu, The Auditor General of the First
National Bank
(FNB) First National Avenue Johannesburg Branch,South
Africa. I have an urgent and very confidentialbusiness
proposition for you. On January 11th, 2000, a Taiwanese
Oilconsultant/contractor with the South Africa National
Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Boris Chen made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit forTwenty-Four calendar months, valued at
US$49,000,000.00 (Fourty-NineMillion Dollars) in my branch.
Upon maturity, I sent a routinenotification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After some months, we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers, the South Africa National Petroleum Corporation
that Mr.Boris Chen died from an airplane crash( Singapore
Airlines).

On further investigation, I found out that he died without
making aWILL,and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. Itherefore made further investigation and
discovered that Mr.Boris Chen did not declare any kin or
relations in all his official documents,including his Bank
Deposit paper work in my Bank. This sum ofUS$49,000,000.00
is still intact sitting in my Bank and the interestis being
rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.
Noone has ever come forward to claim it.

According to South Africa Law, at the expiration of 5 (five)
years, the money will revert to theownership of the South
Africa Government if nobody applies to claim thefund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you to stand
in asthe next of kin to Mr.Boris Chen so that the fruits of
this old man'slabour will not get into the hands of some
corrupt government officials.This is simple, I will like you
to provide immediately your full namesand address so that
the Attorney will prepare the necessary documentsand
affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin.

We will start the first transfer with Nine million
[$9,000.000] upon successful transaction without any
disappoint from your side, we shallre-apply of the payment
of the remaining rest amount to your account.The amount
involved is (USD $49 M) Fourty Nine million
UnitedStatesDollars only. I want to first transfer
$9,000.000 [Nine
millionUnited States Dollar] from this money into a safe
foreigners accountabroad before the rest, but I don't know
any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved toa local person
here, without valid international foreign passport, but can
only be approved to any foreigner with valid international
passportor drivers license and foreign a/c because the money
is in US dollarsand the former owner of the a/c Mr. Boris
Chen is a foreigner too ,andthe money can only beapproved
into a foreign a/c and be informed thatempty account can
serve.

We shall employ the services of an Attorneyfor drafting and
notarization of the {WILL} and to obtain the
necessarydocuments and letter of Probate/administration in
your favour for thetransfer. A bank account in any part of
the world which you will providewill then facilitate the
transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of
kin. The money will be paid into your account for usto share
in the ratio of 70% for me and 25% for you .There is no risk
atall as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done
by theAttorney and my position as the Branch Manager
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.

If you will be interested, please replyimmediately via the
private emails address above. Upon your response, Ishall
then provide you with more details and relevant documents
thatwill help you understand the transaction. Please observe
with utmostconfidentiality, and be rest assured that this
transaction would be mostprofitable for both of us because I
shall require your assistance to invest my share in your
country. you know since the {deceased} made this huge amount
of money in dollars that means that investing in your
country will be one of my greatest joy.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Charles Zulu.


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