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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmed bello" <ahmbell2001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ahm_bell3@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:16:25 +0000
Subject: URGENT/CONFIDENTIAL

MR AHMED BELLO.
THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,
BANK INTERNATIONAL DU BURKINA (B.I.B)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO.



How are you doing with your family?I presume that all is well with you.I am
the assistant manager of audit and accounting department at the foreign unit
of our bank.I got your contact from the international directory when i was
looking for a foreigner who will assist me to achieve a great success
business that will yeild us life success. Before i wrote you,i prayed that
you will be a honest and reliable person whom i can work with to achieve
this deal of our life.From my section in the bank, I discovered an abandoned
sum of TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($10m) that belongs to one of our
customer who died along with his entire famillies,on 25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE
PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] with the whole passengers aboard.The name od the
deceased man was (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,Germany.You have to
understand that i come acrossed this huge amount of money when i was
arranging the departmental customers file to submit to the bank management
for the annual audit of the year.Since the bank got information about the
death of the deceased man, the bank have been expecting
his next of kin to apply and claim his money because the bank cannot release
the fund unless a person from any foreign countries apply for the transfer
of the fund as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines but unfortunately i learnt through investigations
that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that you will
apply for the bank will release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation
for safety and subsequent sharing since nobody is coming for it.

For us to achieve this businesss immediately,the percentage ratio for
sharing the fund when the bank release the fund for you must be arranged.So
i accept that thirty one percent of the fund(31%) will be for you as a
foreigner for the provision of any bank account where the bank will transfer
the money into including other of your particiaption during the process of
the transfer,Sixty
percent (60%) will be for me as the person who explores the business,Four
percent of the fund (4%) will be for the expenses which may come forth
during the transfer of the fund, while 5% will be shared to the helpless
peoples around us in the world such as ,motherless babies,charity
homes,disable peoples and so on.

Thereafter I will visit your country for sharing the money according to the
percentages indicated above.So for the immediate transfer of this fund into
your bank account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only
existening next of kin to the deceased customer by indicating in the
application the bank account formation where you will request the bank to
transfer the fund into.So if you accept to help me in other to achieve this
great business,i will send to you through email or by fax an application
form of claim which you will fill with your account information and send to
the bank for the transaction to start immediately.Please i would like you to
know the following information.(1.) This business is HUNDRED PERCENT FREE
FROM RISK.(2.)You will not face any uestions because the application will
bear the brief information of the deceased which the bank may like to
know.(3.) If you will follow my instruction and directives,this transaction
will be completed with a short of time.(4.)You should keep this business
CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET untill the fund get transfered into your account.


Finally,call or contact me through my email address or through my private
telephone number so that we will proceed with this business immediately.

My regards to you and your family.

Yours faithfully,
MR AHMED BELLO.

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