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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: bendouglas2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:49:09 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20ASSISTANCE=20NEEDED=2E?=
FROM THE DESK OF,
DR BEN DOUGLAS,BRANCH BANK MANAGER.
CONTINENTAL TRUST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)
LAGOS NIGERIA.
MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS(bendouglas2005@yahoo.com}
ATTENTION:
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its 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 at the end of the
day.We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Ben Douglas,A
Manager at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you
in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money
to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A foreigner, Late Engineer
William Adams, an oil Merchant /contractor with the federal Government of
Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked
with us here at the Continental Trust Bank PLC,Lagos, and had a closing
balance of USD$22.2M (Twenty-Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any
of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively
be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military
war collage here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by this bank to get in touch with
any of late Engr. William Adams's next of kin (he had no known wife and
children), but all our efforts proof abortive. Right now, the management
and the Board of directors of this bank has made an arrangement for the
fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the
trust fund for Arms and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course
of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative
development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek
for your permission to have you stand as late Engr.WILLIAMS ADAMS's next
of kin so that this fund (USD$22.2M) would be subsequently transferred and
paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefullym
worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while
the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country.
If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my e-mail address furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this
transaction.
PLEASE CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS(bendouglas2005@yahoo.com)
FOR SECURITY REASONS.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Regards.
Dr. Ben Douglas.
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