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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: chrisyjones <chrisyjones@sapibon.com>
Reply-To: chrisy_jones@tiscali.it
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:36:01 -0500
Subject: Thanks and best regards
Credit Managering Director:
Session Office:REF45321
Email chrisy_jones@tiscali.it
PLS..REACH ME NOW.
Dear Sir/Madam
My name is chrisy jones; I am the credit manager in a bank here in Europe
(Netherlands).
I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge 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
everything has been well taken care off, and all will be well at the end
of the day.
I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. To ease
your apprehension,I got your contact from the British chambers of commerce
and industry,
foreign trade division.
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in an
air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian
airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the
website below which was published by CNN.WEBSITE.
<<http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html>>
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May his soul
rest in peace).
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, I 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 a lawyer for the funds Twenty- Eight million,
Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$28,500,000.00) in a
domiciliary account to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's
next of kin. Because after four years the money will be called back to the
bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the
directors of the bank. So it is on this note.
I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to
share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year. It may
interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1. A Beneficiary name;. In order for me to prepare the PAPER WORK
for
transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Details particulars of your contact address.
3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;. For our personal contact.
I shall be compensating you with 25% of the total sum on final conclusion
of this project for your assistance, as I have also thought of doling out
5% to charity organization from your locality based on your recommendation
another 5% for the services of the lawyer while the balance 65% shall be
for me for investment purposes in your country as i cannot bring back this
cash to my country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately.
Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you by
informing you of this transaction from my bank
Endeavour to respond via my confidential email address:
chrisy_jones@tiscali.it
Thanks and best regards,
Chrisy Jones
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