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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: ford4@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:37:09 +0200
Subject: Respond Asap
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. 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 have decided to contact you by e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction.
Let me start by first introdusing myself properly to you. I am Mr.Ford Goering,
a Manager at the Standard Bank of South Africa Limited. I came to know of
you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a
very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum
of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I am not too
really sure if you are my long lost contact whom I am trying to
reach, but in anyway, please do take this message with a good heart and
report back to me if you are not the person I think you are. I would explain
more latter.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant / contractor with
the federal Govenment of South Africa, until his death three years ago in
a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Standard Bank of South Africa
Limited,and had a closing balance of USD$25M which the bank now unquestionably
expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively
be donated to a discredited trust fund for alms and ammunition at a military
war college here in South Africa.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to get in touch with
any of the Creek family or relatives but all have proved to no avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not going to be able to locate
any of late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin (he had no known wife and
children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman, board
of directors, Retired Major General Desmond Makemba, that an arrangement
for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be subsequently donated
to the Trust Fund for Alms and Ammunition which will further enhance the
courses of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted
colleagues here at the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand
as late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin so that the fund, would be subsequently
transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully
worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement.
For your assistance, your commission would be 30%. 10% has been set aside
for expenses while the rest would be for myself and
my colleagues for investment purposes in your country.
If this proposal is OK. by you and you do not wish to take advantage of
the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to
me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax number and exclusive e-mail:goering_ford@yahoo.co.uk so that I can forward
to you the relevant details of this transaction. Thank you in advance for
your anticipated co-operation.
Regards,
Mr.Ford Goering
Manager Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
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