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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: "mustafa ibrahim" <mustafa002_416@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:13:29 +0100
Subject: urgent

Dear sir,


It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter,
which I believe will
be a suprise one to you, as we are both complete strangers to each other.I
know also you will find it difficult to believe it but it is a reallity.

My name is Mustafa Ibrahim
the Deputy Managing Director of COMMERICAL BANK OF UAE.


I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my
bank with account number in my who perished in a plane crash
Korean Air Flight 801 with
the whole passengers on aboard August 6, 1997.

Since the demise of this our customer,I personally has
watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved
abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of USD28.5m,[twenty eight
million five hundred
thousand united states dollars] which has been with my
branch for a very
long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his/her name
shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin.

And the banking ethics
here does not allow such money to stay more than 8years otherwise the money
will be recall into government treasury as a floating fund without a
beneficiary.
years, because money

In view of this I contact you to seek for your opinion to handle the
business.If you naccept the proposal kindly state what will be your % after
the transaction.When I hear from you I will give you more information about
the business.


Best regards,
Mustafa Ibrahim

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