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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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Fraud email example:
From: "Dr Umaru Daggash" <umarudaggash346@aemail4u.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: u.daggash@mcrmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:02:15 -0700
Subject: NEXT OF KIN(BANK INHERITANCE)
From the desk of:DR MUSA ALI, (Operations Director)
TELEPHONE:234-80-37173436
FAX:234-1-7594377
PRUDENT BANK PLC.
(CODE:BANTAM)
Dear Sir,
Permit me to introduce myself. I am DR MUSA ALI, the Financial
Director of PRUDENT BANK PLC.one of the
largest banks in Nigeria.
The Board of our Bank mandated me to contact you over a business that will be of mutual benefit to you at no risk whatsoever to both yourself and your organisation.
Sometime in 1999, one of our highly esteemed
customers, Mr. Adii Bantam, a
citizen of Indonesia died in an aeroplane crash off
the coast of Lagos. Before his sudden death, he was the Managing
Director of Cross Atlantic Oil Company and he maintained both current and savings accounts with our bank. As at the time of his death, he has about US$8.5Million in both accounts.
After his death, our bank made several efforts to
contact his next of kin to claim his money without success. We even contacted his country’s embassy here in Nigeria to assist us contact his relations,but the embassy wrote us back after three (3) months saying that they too could not locate MR. ADII BANTAM’s relatives. It was on that we had a meeting and decided to place MR. BANTAM’s money in a special account.
Sir, recent event have made us to write you this
letter. And another emergency meeting of the Board of Directors of the PRUDENT BANK PLC.was held where it was decided that we should remove the money from our computer system control.
It was decided that I should contact you for possible assistance on this very important matter.
Sir, we want to present you as the next of kin
(relations to the late MR. BANTAM); your present
country does not matter as you could be his uncle
from his mother’s side which automatically qualifies you
to claim his property (money). Should you accept
this proposal, you will be given additional
information (bio data) on MR. BANTAM and tell you
what to do. Please note that you have the backing
of the Board of the Bank behind you, which will
ensure that every thing will go smoothly at no risk
to yourself or your company. When you have received
the money, it will be shared in a manner
that will be satisfactory to all of us. Our share
will be invested for us for two (2) years under
your direct control until we give you instructions
on what next to do with it.
Sir, should you be interested, kindly get back to
us through my own personal e-mail .
clearly stating your phone and fax number(s) for us to provide
you with additional information before we start the
remittance of the fund. We assure you of your maximum
protection while we urge you to get back to us
without much delay. Our code
is (BANTAM). Any communication without this code
should be disregarded.
Best regards,
DR MUSA ALI, (FIN. DIRECTOR).
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