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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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Fraud email example:
From: john williams <john_8_williams@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: barrister_johnwiliams2005@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Attention:sir,
Attention:sir,
I decided to contact you and reach agreement with you to transfer the sum of (US$5,350,000.00,United Dollars Only) to your account, you are going to apply as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary/Survivor to LATE MR.KEN HORNE, so his funds can be released into your account as I have resolved after a long fruitless effort to contact his relatives.
I shed tears seeing how the fruit of his hard Labor is being Lost in the hands of the Operation Manager, who loans out money from his account and making profits and my bank's negligence to protect this account.
I want you as a matter of utmost urgency to co-operate with me, so that I shall send you the account documents from his account file and you shall contact the bank to release the funds a Next of Kin claim and get his account paid to you as his sole beneficiary/Next of Kin. I will immediately send you the text of Next of Kin application letter as soon as I secure our co-operation. I will provide you with every other information's needed for this transaction, upon your urgent response.
LATE MR.KEN HORNE was a Las Vegas chess organizer; he died on a Airplane Crash 20th August 1999. For more about his death visit this website:
http://www.ishipress.com/horne.htm
I shall be expecting your Urgent Co-operation immediately, and would assume you are not interested if you don't respond urgently. Send your Phone Number for our easy communication, which is very paramount, and your Fax Number.
Bye for now, until I hear from you.
Best regards
Barrister john Williams
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