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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: "JEMILA AHMED" <jemila_ahmed@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:19:01 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS TO YOU.

Dear Sir,

Greetings to you in the name of God!

My name is Mrs.Jemila Ahmed, widow to late Mr.Hassan Ahmed
former owner of Hassy Petroleum and Gas company Ltd, Kuwait. I
am 68years old, suffering from long time cancer of the breast.
>From all indications my condition is really deteriorating and
it's quite obvious that I will soon die according to numerous
doctors' reports. This is because the stage of the cancer has
gotten to a very bad stage. I don't need your sympathy but I
need your trust.

My late husband died two years ago from heart attack, and during
the period of our marriage we had no child, hence, his relatives
confistcated his vast businesses and wealth after his death.

What I have been able to trace since he died is the sum of 9.5
million dollars (Nine Milliaon Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)
which he deposited in my name and marked 'FAMILY TREASURE AND
VALUABLES' in a security company in UK some years back. That is
all I have left in life.

Now that my doctors have informed me that my sickness is
terminal which may happen any moment from now, I need you to
take possession of this funds and invest substantial amount of
it in the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center and
distribute the remaining to any charity of your choice, so that
when I die my soul shall be at peace with God.

I hope and pray that God will give you the wisdom and grace to
touch very many lives through charity, that is my main concern.

For all your efforts, time and resources you will expend in
proccessing the movement of this fund to you, I propose that you
will draw 10% of the the whole money for your personal use while
the remaining 90% goes to charity.

I am very sorry if you are embarrassed by my mail, I only found
your e-mail address on the web directory and decided to contact
you. But if for any reasons whatsoever you find this mail
offensive, you can ignore it and please accept my apology.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do please respond ASAP so
that I will furnish you with the details of an attorney that
will assist in packaging the transaction in your favour.

God bless you.

Mrs.Jemila Ahmed.

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