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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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: "mr abubello" <mr_abubello01@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:52:03 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT

FROM THE DESK OF MR. BELLO,
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA ( BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,

Dear friend,

Compliments,

I am a manager at the Bill and Exchange department of BANK OF AFRICA.I am
writting to seek your cooperation over this business deal.In my department,
I discovered an abandoned sum of $14million USD(fourtheen million united
states dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took
place in Kenya,East Africa, Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of
Atlanta,United States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,West Africa
and a contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES) .

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or a relative to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , all his supposed
next of kin or relatives 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 businness proposal to you and release the money to you
via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and this money would go into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed fund.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank's
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin or relative to a
foreigner.


40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner,in respect to the
provision of a foreign account. 5 % will be set aside for expenses incured
during the course of the business and 55 % would be for me.Thereafter,I will
come over to your country for disbursement or sharing according the
percentages indicated above.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relative or next of kin to
the deceased,indicating your claims and the bank information wherein the
money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
application which you will fill and forward to the office of the foreign
remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not fail to
bring to your notice that this transaction is strictly confidential and i
will use my position in this Bank to effect a hitch-free transfer of the
fund.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

NB: Please , visit the website below for more informations about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family,Late DR.
GEORGE BRUMLEY.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Yours faithfully,

Mr BELLO,

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