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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: lambertonline@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:52:10 -0800
Subject: REPLY ASAP, ITS CONFIDENTIAL,
My Dear Friend:
I am Kowowa Lambert accountant foreign bill of exchange of the operation
Department of standard trust bank of Nigeria. I am writing following the
impressive information about you through an internet geonological resarch
.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of ( US$9 million ) in
an account that belong to my late client { Engineer Michael } a foreign customers
who work as a refinery engineer with the CHEVRON OIL COMPANY here in nigeria
, he died along side with his entire family in April 2002 in a car accident
.
Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin of relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guide. Unfortunately, we learnt that all his
surposed next of kin or relations died along with him at the spot of the
accident . It therefore, upon discovery that now as the personal accountant
to late { Engineer Michael } i decided to make business with you and release
the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safe keeping
and subsequent disbursement, since you are a foriegner like him, and besides
nobody is coming for the fund and i don?t want this money to go back into
Federal Government account as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guideline
here stipulates that such money remained unclaimed after the period of four
years, the money will authomatically be transfered into federal government
banking treasury account as unclaimed bill . The request of a foreigner as
next of kin in this business is strictly occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as a next of kin to
a foreigner. I agreed that 50% of this money would be negotiable for you
as foreign partner as i will be entitled to 50% based on the fact that i
have been coming up with this transaction for the past three years now .
The fund will be remitted into your personal nominated bank account ,thereafter
I shall visit your country for the disbursement / investing my share according
to the percentages indicated. Please be honest to me as you might decide
to abscond into the air after the fund has been transfered into you personal
bank account . Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to
you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin to the deceased.
As the personal accountant to late { Engineer Michael } , I have all the
requisite information & documents that will aid the accomplishment of this
fund release into your personal nominated bank account , and everything shall
go under a legitimate arrangement that will prevent both of us from any breach
of the law .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax a { text of application
} with the name of the deceased and his country and other information about
him , this { text of application you shall have to fill and send to the bank
as your application for the release of then fund to you as the next of kin
to the deceased . Be informed that i will have to approve your application
in the bank as the personal accountant to late { Engineer Michael } , After
the fund have been approved, it will be transferred to an offshore security
finance company in Europe where you will sign for the fund release order
and for onward remittance into your personal account.
Note: I am assuring you this transaction is 100% risk free as i will surely
change your file in the office , this file will prove you to the bank as
the legal / lawful next of kin / beneficiary to the deceased and i shall
likewise provide you with all needed informations that will aid this fund
release accomplishment .
Feel free to contact me via my cell private email for further explanation
of this transaction. kowowaonline@yahoo.co.uk
Expect a positive response from you soonest.
Best regards,
Mr Kowowa Lambert
Accountant [ STB]
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