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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.Kevin Hopkins." <cmsuccess2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: at111at2007@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:59:54 -0800
Subject: Very Important.

# 117 Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.


DEAR SIR/MADAM,

(RE: TRANSFER OF ($125,000.000.00 USD)
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS

I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred & Twenty five million
United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to an oversea
account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential.
I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe account for unward investment.You
can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future.

I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an
account in one of the top banks here in South Africa. The account was opened
in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral WILL and since 2003
nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if
I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company.My investigation
through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he was
single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of South Africa. The
amount in this account is USD $125 Million ( One Hundred & Twenty five
Million United States Dollars ) only.

As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are
interested to do this business with me.There is no risk in this
business,With my position and my personal contact with the manager of the
bank, the money can be transferred to any account you provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty five million [$25,000.000].
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $100 Million to your
account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not
be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I will
provide for you.

So you should provide me with your correct account details, where you will
like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclussion of the transfer you
will take 35%, while 5% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in
the process of this business and the remaining 60% will be for me. As soon
as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me
down once the fund goes into your account I will then start the processing
of the transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.

Send the Information as stated below.

Bank Name:.............
Bank Address:..........
A/C Number:...........
A/C Name:............
Swift Code:.........

Contact me urgently via email for further details.Meanwhile, if you are
calling my satellite phone, do not add South African country code, only dail
your country dail out code then, you dail the number starting from
+874-763593730
+870-763593730

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Mr.Kevin Hopkins.

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