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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 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)
  • "hundred thousand 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: DR SMITH HANKOBA <s_hankoba@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:00:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: very urgent dear friend


The Manager of Audit and Account Department,
Banque International De La Afrique / BIA
Lome Togo

Dear Friend,

I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account
dept,of our bank.So with due respect, i decided to contact you over this
business financial transaction worth the sum of TEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($10,300,000m) 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,2000
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 Togo cannot come forward to claim thefund since the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such fund.

Since the real beneficary of the fund 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 ,we will share the fund according to the percentage ratio below.

SIXTY FIVE PERCENT (65%) of the total fund will be for me.
TWENTY FIVE PERCENT(25%) for you in provision of the Bank account.
FOUR PERCENT(4%) will be for unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer.
SIX PERCENT(6%) 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. So 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 prayed before i was pushed forward to contact you for
this business but i want you to pray also and 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 immediately for more detailed information for how the process to transfer the fund into your account will be.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Smith Hankoba




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