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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • iiiiiii@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:33:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: URGENT PLEASE. ***SACM***





         


--- Em qua, 26/11/08, mr sherrif alhassan <mr.sherrif002@ymail.com> escreveu:
De: mr sherrif alhassan <mr.sherrif002@ymail.com>
Assunto: URGENT PLEASE.
Para: iiiiiii@yahoo.com
Data: Quarta-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2008, 18:19

From:Mr Sherrif Alhassan(BOA.
Bills & Exchange Manager
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.

(TOP SECRET PLEASE)

Dear friend,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however it's just my urgent

need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction.Sorry
to distract your attention,I am Mr Sherrif Alhassan the bill and exchange
manager
in the bank of african ouagadougou burkina faso.

I contacts you in this transaction since i cannot be able to see you face to
face
at first that is why i decided to write. I will like you to take your time to
read
this mail carefully.
I did not mean to embarrass you with my business proposal but i seriously need

your assistance.Please this is a confidential matter and it requires urgency.

In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m dollars in account
that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family on

monday,31 july,2000, in a plane crash , since we got information about his
death,
we have been expecting his or her next of kin to come over and claim his money

because we can not release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or

relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws, but
unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin died along side with him
at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery, i now decided to make this business
proposal
to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i
don't
want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law

and guidine here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after eight
years and six months, the money will be transferred into the bank as unclaimed

bill i therefore agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set
aside
for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me. There after
i
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you
must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased
indicating.
please forward me the bellow information's;
Your name: ............................
Your country: .........................
Your phone Number: ......................
Your Tel/fax: ...........................
Your age: ...............................
Your occupation: .......................
A copy of your photo.................
All this is for easy and effective communication and location where in the
money will be remitted. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transactionis hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as
all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting

to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully
Mr Sherrif Alhassan.
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