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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: e_453786@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:47:12 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Business=20venture=2C=20Your=20assistance=20is=20highly=20needed=28=20it=27s=20legal=20and=20risk=20free=29?=
FROM: MR. WILLIAM SMITH.
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
SBM Nedbank International Limited
Mauritius
EMAIL: wwsmith@walla.com
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of it's 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 by the end of the day.
There is no doubt that trust conceptually is a conundrum which leads itself
to deferring interpretation, we have decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.
I am the manager, bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of the SBM Nedbank International Bank, Mauritius I came to know you in my
private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential
Transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account requiring maximum confidence.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$17,320,000.00 (seventeen million three
hundred and twenty thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of
a wife and two children in November 1998 in a plane crash. Since his death,
none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for
this money as the heir. 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, unfortunately, no family member nor relative
has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, we now seek
your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased so that
the funds (seventeen million three hundred and twenty thousand united states
dollars) can be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's
next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to treasury as unclaimed
funds which will subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms and
ammunition to further enhance the course of war in the World. All documents
to enable you receive this funds will be carefully worked out by us as we
already have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any
of deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring you that this business
is safe. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our
mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letters of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can
be made. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;
On final conclusion of this project, 65% of this surplus shall be for us,
while 30% shall be for you and the remaining 5% shall be used to compensate
either party for any expenses incurred. Your share stays while the rest
shall be for us for investment purposes.
Whilst this anormalities may well raise your doubts in view of the fact
that you are a person not physically known to us, I advice that a healthy
degree of caution be exercised before conclusions are reached by your good
self. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage
of the trust we have bestowed in you, Send your response to the above email
address. I await your urgent mail.
Best Regards,
William Smith.
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