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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: "perdesen Charles" <perdesen_c@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 03:29:45 +0000
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE
Mr Charles Perdesen
FINANCE SECURITIES B.V.
Amsterdam, Holland.
Attn: PRESIDENT/CEO.
Dear Sir, I am Karl Oder, Manager of Bills/Exchange at
the Foreign Operations Department of FINANCE
SECURITIES B.V. Website. (www.finance.nl) In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of Ten
Million, united States Dollar (US$10,000,000,00) in a
domiciliary account that belonged to one of our
foreign customers, Mr. Roy Hinton who died in the
plane crash of Yak-40 jetliner on March, 2000. Since
we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his
fund because we cannot release it unless somebody
applied for it as next-of-kin, or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our FINANCE SECURITIES B.V
guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to
claim this fund. It is based on this that I have
decided to establish a cordial business relationship
with you, hence my contacting you.
I seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin
or relation of the deceased and the sole beneficiary
of this fund, so that the proceeds of this account
valued at US$10,000,000:00 can be remitted to your
account. Moreover, I do not want the fund confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the FINANCE SECURITIES
B.V. The FINANCE SECURITIES B.V law and guidelines
here stipulate that any account abandoned or is
dormant for a period of years is deemed closed and all
fund contained therein forfeited to the FINANCE
SECURITIES B.V.
Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be
forfeited to the FINANCE SECURITIES B.V as an
abandoned fund on or before December 2005. The reason
for requesting you to present yourself as next-of-kin
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased (customer)
was a foreigner.
The FINANCE SECURITIES B.V needs only the facts as
presented legally. The rest is between you and me and
with my guide; we can have the fund paid into your
account. Once this is done we shall share the fund,
60% to me and 30% to you, while 10% shall be for Taxes
as your Government may require.
All I require is your honest cooperation in enabling
us see this deal through and I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any Breach of law. Therefore you
are expected to reply this letter indicating your
readiness and interest to participate in this
business. After receiving your reply, I will be
communicating with you the exact steps to take.
I expect your prompt response through this email
address (perdesen2003@yahoo.co.uk ) to enable us conclude
this transaction quickly. Please treat this business
proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons.
Personal regards.
Mr Charles Perdesen.
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