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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Chris Adams <chrisadams47@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: FROM DR CHRIS ADAMS (VERY URGENT)


Dear Imanie Dousen.,

Thanks a lot for your mail.I am very much aware that this transaction require one that can be trusted.I am promising you my full co-operation and honesty.This is because you and i stand to gain in this transaction.

First,i want to explain why i contacted you for this transaction.I am a civil servant in my country and by law,i am not allowed to operaste a foreign account as there is a constant check and scrutiny in my country.The depositor ,Mr.Paul Philip deposited this money inh my bank for a long time now and he died in the plane crash in 1999.

My bank has made effort on reaching the relative of the deceased but all effort
has been futile.Now, it is in our banking law that if the relative of the deceased do not place a claim on the fund deposited,after six years,the fund will be
regarded as unclaimed bills.

Now,i do not want my bank to declare this fund as unclaimed bills and this is why i have sought for a foreign partner who will act as the next of kin to the
deceased.Do not be alarmed as all that will be requested by the bank is within my possession.I am willing to forward all the relevant document to you to
back up your claim and all i want is that the bank should approve you as the next of kin.

Once the bank approves you as the next of kin, you will be the beneficiary of the fund deposited in the bank by our late customer.As soon as the bank
makes the transfer to your account,then you will have to send two letters of invitation for my colleague and i who will then come over to your country for the
subsequent sharing of the fund.

You will not have totransfer the fund to our account here in Ghana
because we will be questioned by the authorities on how we came about the money.knowing that we are civil servants.

So all i want you to assure me is that you will keep this transaction within yourself and you will have to make sure you do not bring it to the notice of the
bank that iam the one providing all the relevant information and document to you.Also.you have to send the following information to me so that i can inturn
send you a drafted application which you have to fill and send to the bank.

1.Your private telephone

2.Your contact address

3.Age

4.Full name

Best Regard

Dr Chris Adams


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