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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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  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: "petersa@terra.es" <petersa@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:52:15 +0100 (MET)
Subject: PRIVATE MAIL



Audit Department,
CITIBANK
LONDON

Greetings,

I am Dr. Akim Peters an auditor with CITIBANK 364 Kensington High St London W14 8NS. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you which will benefit the two of us.
On May 20, 2000, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLUEM CORPORATION Mr. Dara Baraz. made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 24 calendar months, valued at US$26,000,000.00 (Twenty-six Million dollars only) in this bank.Upon maturity in 2002, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, I sent a reminder and discovered from his contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr. Dara Baraz died as a result of torture in the hands of Sadam Hussein during one of his trips to Iraq. Further investigation, showed that he died without registering a beneficiary to his assets, and all attempt to trace his next of kin was fruitless.

This sum of US$26,000,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 2002 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have proved abortive.

My proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Baraz (the deceased) so that you can claim the money legitimately as the next-of-kin. Therefore, bank will transfer the money to your designated account in your country.
All documents to enable you get this fund will be provided by me. I am assuring you that the business is 100% risk-free. Sharing will be based according to agreement within you and I.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, send to me immediately your:
1. names in full
2. contact address
3. the account number where you want the money transfered and
4. private telephone/telefax numbers for easier communication

please do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

Regards,
Dr. Akim Peters
Auditor
Citibank London







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