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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. DOM CELLE" <dom_cee01@mailbulgaria.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dom_cee01@yahoo.co.in
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 06:00:07 -0700
Subject: HELLO
Dear sir,
PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
I am very sure that this message will be a very suprising letter to you since we have not make any business relationship before.I am only contacting you for this important business because I have no other means of doing it unless I am supported by a foreigner who will make claims of the Money.
We want to transfer to overseas account (15,000.000.00 POUNDS) ( FIFTEEN-MILLION POUNDS STERLINGS) from a bank here in london,I want to ask you, If you are capable or to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am DR. DOM CELLE., the External Auditor General of (A BANK OFSCOUTLAND UNITED KINGDOM).
During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1997 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. MR JOHN HUGHES a Canadian and great industrialist. He was African Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000. You will read more stories about MR JOHN HUGHES's family death with there pictures and SIL ere www.wycliff.jo/Jugendkeller/john hughes.htm Also about the crash on visiting this website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html.
No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he has a Gold/Diamond Consulting firm.
I also found out that their only surviving daughterJOHN HUGHES died last year.
The total amount involve is (15,000.000.00 POUNDS) and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad.
But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has correct information about the account,which I shall give to you upon your positive responses.I am revealing this secret to you with believe in god that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.
I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official Will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence of other staffs to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 60% will be for us. There is no risk at all, and all the paper work for this transaction will be done by me using my position and connection in the bank.i wait for your urgent reply.
Yours faithfully,
DR. DOM CELLE.
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