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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • allenibrahim@delfi.lv (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Allen Ibrahim" <allenibrahim020@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: allenibrahim@delfi.lv
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:01:19 +0000
Subject: From Mr Ibrahim, Awaiting your reply and call.

Mr Ibrahim Allen.
The Manager of Audit & Account Department,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B.)
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

Dear Friend,
Please read carefully, This is secret and confidential.

I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account dept
of our bank, with due respect i decided to contact you over this business
financial transaction worth the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ( 15.2Million usd ) 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 on 25th July,2001 in a plane crash
disaster. 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 five 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 permit an indigene to claim such fund Since the real
beneficary of the fund is 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 ,i will share the fund according
to the percentage indicated below.
SIXTY PERCENT (60%) of the total fund will be for me.THIRTY PERCENT( 30%)
for you in provision of the Bank account.FIVE PERCENT(5%) will be for
unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer.FIVE PERCENT(5%)
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.

And 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 immediatelly you
receive this mail through my private email address ( allenibrahim@delfi.lv
)and call me on 00226-7650 7383 for more detailed information on how the
process to transfer the fund into your account will be.

Yours faithfully,

Ibrahim Allen.

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