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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: "Mr Ima Micheal" <ima_micheal20@o2.pl> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:26:26 +0000
Subject: Mr Ima Micheal
234-802-3139-768.
Dear Sir,
My name is Mr.Ima Micheal I work in the credit and
accounts department of Union Bank of Nigeria
Plc,Lagos, Nigeria.
I write you in respect of a foreign customer with
Domicilliary A/C number 6402356789. His name is
Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He was among
those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during
the reign of late General Sani Abacha.
Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Engineer
Joseph Schultzman, who was an oil merchant/contractor,
I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and
accounts and since then no body has come to claim
the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late
Engineer. He had only $38.5mllion in his a/c and the
a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce
the code or password of the deposit particulars. As it
stands now, there is nobody in that position to
produce the needed information other than my very self
considering my position in the bank.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to
claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for
your co operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to
a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between
myself and you. At this point I am the only one with
the information because I have removed the deposit
file from the safe .
By this doing, what is required of you is to send an
application laying claims of the deposit as next of
kin to the late Engineer.
I will need your full name and address, company or
residential, so that i can computerize them to tally
with next of kin column in the certificate of deposit.
Finally i want you to understand that the request for
a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that
reason alone a local cannot represent as next of
kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how
the money will be split between us.
Trusting to hear from you, I remain
Respectfully yours,
Mr Ima Micheal
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