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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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: "garuba ahmed" <garuba_ahmed101@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:54:41 +0000
Subject: waiting to hear from you soonest.

MR Garuba Ahmed
The Manager of Audit and Account Department,
Bank Of Africa / B.O.A
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

Dear Friend,
Good Evening,

Please read this mail carefully and contact me.

I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account
dept,of our bank.So with due respect, i decided to contact you over this
business financial transaction worth the sum of three Million United States
Dollars ($3,000,000, in other
to entrust this fund into your bank account.This is an abandoned fund that
belongs to the one of our bank customers who died along with his entire
family Mon, 31 July,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] No body was
recovered from the crash.

I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old
and
abandoned customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to the bank
managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking
financial policy, it was obviously indicated and signed law fully that if
such money remains unclaimed after six years without somebody been a
foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next of kin , the money will be
transferred into the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed fund. So the request of
you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of
Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the fund since the
law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such fund. Since the real
beneficary of the fund died , the bank are expecting the next of kin to
apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but
unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out
that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.Therefore I want
you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account details where our
bank will transfer the fund into, and immediately the fund is transferred
into your account ,we will share the fund according to the
percentage ratio below.

SIXTY FIVE PERCENT (65%) of the total fund will be for me.TWENTY SEVEN
PERCENT( 27%) for you in provision of the Bank account.TWO PERCENT(2%) will
be for unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer.SIX
PERCENT(6%) will be preserved for helping the helpless people, like charity
organization and motherless babies. Thereafter you will help me to visit
your country for sharing the money according to the percentage 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
existing next of kin to the deceased customer and after approval which will
take place immediately as you applied, the transfer of the fund into your
nominated bank account will proceed. Please note that you should keep this
business secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account which
you will provide. And there is NO RISK in this business,The bank will
forward to you all necessary documents related to the transfer and which
will prove that you make a legal claim of inheritance.

It is true that i pray to GOD before i was pushed forward to contact you for
this business but i want you to assure me solemnly that you are a
trsutwothy,reliable,honest and capable to avoid cheating me in this
business.If you are really sure of your integerity,reply and call me
immediately you receive this mail on (00226.-76-68-65-86 for more detailed
information for how the process to transfer the fund into your account will
be.

Yours sincerely,

MR Garuba Ahmed.

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS.

N.B.In orther to proceed and beleive me honestly over this transaction,I
would like you to try and go through this (wedsite) below and come back to
me as soon as you are through with it so that we should proceed the effect
of this transaction.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).Please i needed your
urgent response over this transaction.

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