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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: "okoro joseph" <okorojoseph11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: okorojoseph4@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:10:51 +0200
Subject:
ATTENTION
My name is Joseph Okoro. I am one of the senior Managers in the bank I work for (Union Bank, Nigeria PLC) and I work under the Director of Foreign Exchange Operations (international Remittance). I am contacting you presently because I need your urgent assistance in
a business transaction that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
I have the immediate need to transfer some money that has long been declared "UNCLAIMED" by the chairman and some members of the board of directors of our bank. The money is the closing balance of one of our best customers ever, Late Engr. Micheal Richardson, I was his personal account officer just before he died in the ADC plane crash of 1996 in
Nigeria.
Engr. Micheal Richardson an American citizen was a contractor with the federal
Government of Nigeria, he supplied and installed equipment and his company Richland Contractors completed some of the best construction contracts in the country. His closin balance in the bank, Union Bank of Nigeria PLC (US$7.2Million) has been tagged unclaimed because no relative of Engr. Richardson has come forward to make a statement of claim.
We have no knowledge of a next of kin. At this point I trust you can picture what the situation is like. We have strong proof that the Chairman and the board of directors will keep most of the money for themselves and donate the remainder to a discredited
military trust here in Nigeria. This invariably is an attempt to infuse more money into the acquisition of military equipment (arms and ammunition ) for use in an already prostrate Africa. This of course, is senseless, hence my mission.
My colleagues and myself have made several attempts at locating persons that could be remotely related to Engr. Richardson and we have been doing this for about 4 years now. Right now I am almost alone in this enterprise and I have presently decided on moving the money to a foreign account. I am hereby soliciting your assistance and I will be very grateful if you will be willing to help in this regard.
We have access to most of what it will take to transfer this money. The only thing we do not have is a safe account. We will provide you with answers to all the security questions, which you will have to answer to move the process towards completion. We will also provide you answers to questions that only a person related to him will know. You may however not need to make any appearance, everything will be concluded on phone and fax between you and the bank (UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC, LAGOS). For your participation, you will get 15%, 5% has been earmarked for the expenses that may be incurred on both ends, while 80% shall be for me and my colleagues.
I make this proposal in trust and in good faith, therefore, if you are interested and you agree to assist, please send me the under listed information* and contact me immediately you receive this email , there is a lot more to talk about. If you are not interested then, please do get rid of this email and please forgive me if this message has upset you in any way.
Thank you and best regards.
Joseph Okoro
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