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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Faroq Uztaz ( Regional Director ]" <faqz10@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:36:24 +0000
Subject: Request For Foreign Assistance....Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin !

From: Dr.Faroq Uztaz

Tel: 00228 909 6677

Request For Foreign Assistance !

Assalam Alaikum!

Attn: Dear Friend,

I have a proposal for you this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your wish.

I am Dr.Faroq Uztaz ,a Regional Director with Magnum Trust Security Company Sarl,Lome-Togo and a personal friend to a foreign client (late Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin)who deposited a huge sum of amount, US$8.5million(Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with Magnum Trust Security Company Sarl,Lome-Togo.

Unfortunately,this client was among the victims of EGYPTAIR FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in U.S.A. However, they were given a ceremonial mass burial near the crash site.Confirmable from the below website:
<<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm>> <http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1999/10/>
<<http://www.ntsb.gov/events/EA990/default.htm>>

But, since then they have not had anybody to come for the claims as the next of kin. A situation I have monitored closely with my position as a personal friend to the late Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin.

Now, having monitored this deposit and managed it over the years before his death, and hence nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past years ,I have his deposit file and the documents in my "private vault".

I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement has being concluded by me and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me move the funds to his account. This does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal documentations would be handled by me and every loop holes sealed off.

I therefore request you to confirm your interest by a return message and I will furnish you with the full details and what to do concerning this deal.

Now my questions are:-

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. If you can sponsor this transfer,What will be your % ?
4.Can you keep "secrets" ?
Believing to hear from you soonest.

Kind regards,

Dr.Faroq Uztaz .

Tel:00228 909 6677.

n:b:If interested please send your personal telephone and fax numbers and pls call me on my personal and direct telephone #....00228 909 6677.
Thanks for your future assistance.

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