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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: jameshanu <jameshanu006@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jameshanu@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 06:23:59 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP
*FROM Attorney at Law (SAT) James Hanu, LEGAL
PRACTITIONAL/SOLICITOR**,** ATTORNEY ACHARA
CHAMBERS, RUE 52 PISIMOULA OFF FEDERALHIGH *
* COURT WAY, ACCRA-GHANA/WEST AFRICA*
*Dear, *
*I take the liberty of writing you this very confidential mail. I implore
you to give it your maximum attention as the contents are inabsolute
goodfaith.*
*For avoidance of doubts, I am James Hanu, I am a full time practicing
lawyer registered with the **Ghana** Bar Association as well as a Member of
African Independent Financial Advisors.*
*My purpose of writing you this confidential mail is hinged on the fact
that; I was personal attorney to Mr. A.F. Cornholio, who used to be a
contractor with GHANA RAIL S.A, Accra-Ghana here in after shall be referred
to as my client. Precisely on December 30th, 2005, while returning from my
client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident
along Nouvissi express Road, my client and members of his family (wife and
daughter) died in ghastly motor accident by running into a stationery
Trailer without warning sign along the Express way. *
*After his death with members of his family,due process was followed to
alert members of the public and any relation of his through Electronic
Media Obituary Announcement both in the local television station here in **
Ghana**. Also I took personal steps to announce his death through internet
advert but yet up till this moment of writing no surviving relation of my
said client ever came forward.*
*Right now his Bankers has written me requesting me to contact any serving
relation of his for the purpose of transferring his estate in the sum of
US$10,500.000.00M. (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
) Due to the pressure from the Bank I decided to come in contact with you,
keeping in view to ask your hand of co-operation under utmost
confidentiality to claim the outstanding sum by presenting you as the Next
of Kin of my late client, and have the money transferred to you.*
*At the end of the transfer, we shall shear the money acurately into two *
*(50%50%) which is USD$5,250.000.00 Each, and also, every expences that may
be inquired during the curse of the transfer will be sheared into two,
between the both of us, till the successful end of the transfer.*
*Needless to reassure you that as a Lawyer and personal attorney to my late
client, all the necessary information and documents that will sufficiently
prove to the officials of the Bank that you are the next of Kin to the
deceased shall be obtained legally from the probate section of the High
Court.*
*I would therefore request you to give this letter serious thought and get
back to me urgently.*
*Regards.*
*James Hanu,*
*Attorney at Law (SAT)*
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