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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • do.musaesq@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: douglass musa <douglass9musa@msn.com>
Reply-To: <do.musaesq@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:53:44 +0000
Subject: URGENT and NECCESSARY /////



>From the Desk of: Mr.Douglass Musa
Head, Treasury & Financial Services Department.
IBTC CHARTERED BANK PLC.

Dear Sir



First I must solicit your confidence in this letter to you, this is by virtueof its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a proposal letter of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried due to the spam/scam mails that goes across the globe,but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency needed, as I have been reliably award of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature.My name is Mr.Douglass Musa, Head, Treasury & Financial Services Department.with Ibtc Chartered Bank Plc ,I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf.



l write in respect of a foreign customer with Current A/C number:14-2558-2004,who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/



The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska.Since the death of this our customer Mr. Morris Thompson, I have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson. The total amount in the account US$8.4 million and it is a domiciliary escrow bank account.It is only an insider,the account owner or a next of kin who has information about the account that could produce the Code or password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds can only be released to a foreigner.



As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce the needed information other than my very self-considering my position in the bank.Based on the fact that Mr. Thompson family perished in the same flight accident, leaving no one to put claim of the deposit as the next of kin,so I am seeking for your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to late Thompson, and arrange for the release of the funds to your honor for our mutual benefit.

Besides,efforts had been made by the management of my Bank through the America Embassy in Lagos to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail, as we were made to understand that the couple had no other children.Given the skeletal information available to the Bank, it has so far been impossible to reach any of the relatives. The option left for the Bank management is to declare the deceased account dormant and revert the funds to trading on behalf of and in the interest of the Bank.



If there is more delay in moving this money out, this money will be pushed to the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 60 -40%. You shall have 40% of the funds and I shall share the rest with my partner at the bank.I hope this is a fair sharing?If you are willing and ready to assist with this business then confirm to the following information of yours below for further proceedings:



(1) Your Full Name------------------------------------------
(2) Your Full Home address.---------------------------------
(3) Your telephone and fax numbers:------------------------
{4} A copy of your international passport or Driver's License
{5} Your occupation/Age: -----------------------------------
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You can contact me through my private email address: do.musaesq@gmail.com
Once again, I congratulate you for this is significant honor indeed.

Yours Sincerely,
DOUGLASS MUSA.

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