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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: "MR VON.H.HEINZ" <vonheinz1@mail2world.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vonheinz1@swissmail.net
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:08:54 -0800
Subject: Hello!
MR VON HEINZ
Valiant Privatbank AG
Postfach
3001 Bern Switzerland
Sir
PRIVATE AND URGENT
I am contacting you on business transfer of a hugh sum
of money from a deceased account, Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried but I am assuring you that all will be
well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to
the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$5,500,000 five
million five hundred thousand united states dollars in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death none
of
his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims
for this money as the heir We cannot release the fund from
his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery we now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as
all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for
the funds to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin It may interest you to know that we have
secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of the
deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with
the following:
Beneficiary name and address
Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letter of claim
to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour
before the transfer can be made. We shall be
compensating you with a million dollars on final conclusion of this project,
while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while the rest shall be
for us for investment purposes.
If this proposal is acceptable by you do not take undue advantage
of the trust we have bestowed on you. I await your urgent mail.
Regards.
Von H. Heinz
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