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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)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Jaja Karya" <jajab4_kaya@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jaka4_777@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:03:23 +0000
Subject: MONEY DEAL/EXPECTING URGENTLY !!

From Mr. Jaja Karya,
Ecobank of Lomé,
126 rue de la nation,
blv du mono.
LOME-TOGO. West Africa

Dear Friend,

I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Ecobank in
Lomé - Togo ,West Africa .

With due respect and regards ,I have decided to contact you on a business
transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the
transaction.

During a process of auditing in this bank,we have discovered the account of
the late Mr.Kurt Kahle a deceased customer to this bank who, On the 25th of
July 2000, the deceased, his wife and their only son died in the Air France
concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise as
you may view it in this site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since the demise of this customer,I have been personally watching with keen
interest to see the next of kin or a relatives to the deceased but all has
proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$27,450,000.00
(Twenty Seven Million,Four Hundred and fifty Thousand United States
Dollars) which has been with our bank here for a very long time.

On this note,I decided to seek for whom the name shall be used as the next
of kin to claim the fund with, as no one has come up to put claim as the
next of kin or relatives to this funds,and the banking system here,does not
allow such money to stay more than four years,because after four years,the
money will be called back to the bank treasury account as unclaimed fixed
deposit.

The request of foreigner at this juncture as a next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a local here
cannot stand as the next of kin to a foreigner.I agreed that 30% of this
money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect of providing an
account and assistance to see that we claim the fund,while 10% will take
care of any expenses that might be incurred in the process of succeeding the
transfer while the rest of the 60%,will be for me and my collegue.

I will visit you/your country for disbursement as soon as you confirmed the
transfer of the fund in your account hence i am almost due for
retirement.Therefore to endeavour the immediate claim and transfer of this
funds to your account,you have to apply first to my bank here in Lome Togo
as the next of kin to this diseased customer by indicating yourself for
immediate release of the fund to any bank account of your choice where you
want the money to be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your response,i will send a draft of application of
claim to you which you will send to this bank here for proper investigation
for the approval of the fund to you.I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this business is hitch free/100% risk free so you should not entertain
any actom of fear as the whole required arrangement has been perfected done
for the claim of this fund.

Let me know from you if you can handle this deal with the important
information i am going to furnished you.

Hoping to hear from you.

Sincerely Yours
Mr.Jaja Karya.
Tel:+22-986-06-27.

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