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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: "Gary Benson" <ggarybenson10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ggarybenson01@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:38:30 +0000
Subject: FUND TRANSFER ASSISTANCE
From: Mr.Gary B.Benson
Republic of South Africa
Phone:+27 73 18198 05
E-mail: ggarybenson01@yahoo.com
Dear Director
I am a manager of a reputable bank here in South Africa. I will give you the
name of the bank and other important information if I receive a positive
reply from you. For security reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to
you for now until I am sure of your cooperation. One of our bank
customers whom I know too well and he was a wealthy diamond merchant from
the
Republic of Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa. He lost his family in
the war. He was lucky to escape alive and came to this country with his
wealth. Unfortunately he died few years back.
Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon myself to
travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of his close
relations. On reaching there I discovered that his only surviving uncle died
a few months back. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the
bank knew I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official
report of my findings in South Africa.
Now there are two things I could do with respect to the dead man's money.
First, as the bank manager, I could formally notify the general head quarter
and the authorities that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this
case the money would be forfeited to the government after some time. 0n the
other hand, I can arrange for someone, a foreigner, to act as the next of
kin to the late customer so that he/she can claim the money. This is the
option l have decided to take to help whosoever and myself that God brings
my way.
I took this option after my findings that this fund actually was a public
fund looted by highly place government officials under the brutal military
government. I want you to be my partner. All you would have to do to act, as
the next of kin of the deceased man and the whole money in the account will
be transferred to your nominated bank account. As a bank manager account/s
officer to the late man, I have all the necessary documents that you will
require claiming the money in the account.
The total money in the account is USD$58.9M (Fifty Eight Million Nine
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) I hope to resign my job as a banker
to join you in a viable business partnership at the eventual transfer of
this fund. Kindly reach me immediately using the above contact
information. Also provide me with your direct telephone and fax numbers for
easy communication. Also I have decided to share the entire money involved
50/50 with you at the endof the transfer.
Yours truly,
Mr.Gary Benson
Phone:+27 73 181 9805
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