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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • bakoua_ezekiel@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Akoua Ezekiel <ezekiel_ako@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 13:10:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From Akeze-Chambers/Wilde


From Barrister Akoua Ezekiel
Akeze Chambers
Block 3434
Airport Road
Accra-Ghana
West Africa.


Dear,

Please do not be offended if this message comes to you as I ought to have sought your consent and approval before e-mailing this proposal I acted as I did due to the importance and urgency of this business. Which ever way you may look at it, let it please you to respond quickly either negatively or positively.

I am Barrister Akoua Ezekiel, personal attorney to Mr. Joseph R. Wilde,a national of supposedly your country who used to work with Shell Development Company in Accra-Ghana a contract Staff and who was also instrumental to the construction of the International Cement Company, Accra. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client for over ten years. On the 21st of October 2002, my client, his wife and their only daughter, were involved in a car accident along Ring express Road on holidays to Kumasi while driving their personal car. Unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives. As his lawyer,

I was contacted and all necessary burial arrangements were made and the remains of the family buried in the public cementary. Since then I have made several enquiries to the Swedish embassy here and others to locate any of my clients either blood families or the extended relations. My concerted search proved abbortive. After these several unsuccessful attempts and as the last resort,I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to see if I will be lucky to locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you. Perhaps, you may not be related to him but it behoves on us to seize this golden opportunity to salvage his savings since I could not locate any relation of his either dead or alive.

I have in my records his documents where he left behind the sum of Ten million United States of American dollars (US$10 million) in a Bank.I have contacted you to assist me in repartriating this fund left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge amount was deposited. The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days as the policy of the bank is to overrun over five years of unserviceable and dormant accounts.They have a veritable excuse as they knew that my client was dead.Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relations all this while, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last (surnames) names. This is to enable us salvage the proceeds of his account and get it paid to you instead. I have this obssession that if the directors of the Bank confiscated the
money, it might not be put into proper and useful ventures to benefit the poor masses of this world.

I wish to use part of my share to donate to charitable organisations and churches. Therefore, should this proposal appeal to you and on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I have all necessary information needed to back you up for the claim.

All I needed is a willing foreigner who will be honest, trustworthy and transperant both in business and spirit with his or her unalloyed co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangements that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by E- Mail address. You can request my phone number for further discussion on this..

Thanks and have my best regards.

AKOUA EZEKIEL
E-mail; bakoua_ezekiel@yahoo.fr


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