The Dead Memorial Bank Customer page: Statistics

The Dead Memorial Bank Customer page lists some of the many offers to pose as next of kin to who have passed away without next of kin. Plane and car crashes are still the leading causes of death to (mostly) imaginary people.

Plane crash : 254
Motor vehicle crash : 162
Unspecified : 59
Earthquake/Tsunami/Hurricane : 17
Illness/Natural death : 11
Explosion/Bomb blast/Oil blast : 14
September 11 : 6
Assassination : 4
Nautical : 2
Cosmetic surgery : 2
Torture : 2
War in Iraq : 1
War in Liberia : 1
Kidnapping : 1
Rebel attack : 1
Suicide : 1
Murder by spouse : 1
'Normal' death : 3

This list, along with digests of the Imaginary Job Offer and other examples of the scam genre, is updated at Scamorama