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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • jacobmakani@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jacobmakani@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:23:54 +0200
Subject: Please view http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3800513.stm

Please view http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3800513.stm

NOTE;YOUR RESPONSE SHOULD BE MADE ON THIS EMAIL ADDRESS, (jacobmakani@netscape.net)


The inspiration to contact you is simply divine providence, I am making this proposition because I have to seek the partnership of a resource person to help me realize this project. I am Mr.Jacob Makani Head of Private Wealth Management of a Bank here in South-Africa. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. In january 2003 I was attending a business investment conference In Switzerland and I got introduced to a renowned business man Mr Bassam Qubba a top Iraqi Foreign Ministry Director He engaged my services and my primary assignment was to spearhead his investment forays in South-Africa due to the war in his country.

Three months later I invited him to South-Africa and under my professional guidance and based on my advice he made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for 24 calendar months valued at US$ 10,320,000.00 (Ten million three hundred and twenty thousand United States Dollars in my branch due to the problem in his country. Upon maturity in 2005, I sent a notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we discovered from the embassy here that Mr Bassam Qubba on the 12th June 2004 aged 60, was assassinated on his way to work in Baghdad's Al-Adhamiya district. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation into the account and discovered that Mr Bassam Qubbaa did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum US$ 10,320,000.00(Ten million three hundred and twenty thousand United States Dollars has been floating as unclaimed since 2005 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives proved abortive . Meanwhile he was doing this cladenstingly by virture of his position as a public servant. According to the South-African law at the expiration of 4 (four) years, the money will to the ownership of the Government if nobody applies to claim !
the fund and the four years will elapse by the end of 2006.

Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner to present you to stand in as the next of kin to late Bassam Qubba so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that the business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me and for investment purpose as I will leave by the end of the year. The sharing of the funds will be based according to agreement within you and I. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary steps to follow and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you. I think its a!
lso necessary you know more about Mr Bassam Qubba, so kindly visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3800513.stm PLEASE, APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET IS RISK. ENDEAVOUR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY TO THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

Thanks in anticipation for your sincere cooperation.


Mr.Jacob Makani.
jacobmakani@netscape.net

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