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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: paulina chuk <paulinachuk@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:01:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: DEAR FRIEND/CLIENT
DEAR FRIEND/CLIENT ,
I AM MR PAUL BAKER FINANCIAL CONTROLLER AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC.
Your contact was given to me by a friend who was once on diplomatic mission in your country .upon my enquiry for a reliable firm or person to engage in business. The same guaranteed your reliability and trust-worthiness in business matters. I therefore wish to explain this lucrative business intention for our mutual benefit, though I did not let that friend have the real idea of my intended business proposal due to the level of confidentiality which the transaction demands
NOW THE PROPOSAL IS THUS: OUR BANK IS MOSTLY PATRONIZED BY FOREIGNERS AND EXPATRIATES BECAUSE OF OUR ABILITY TO BE DISCRETE AND SECRETIVE. FROM OCTOBER I994 TO DATE, WE HAVE LOST EIGHT CLIENTS(DECEASED) AND FROM THESE EIGHT ONLY FOUR NEXT OF KINS HAVE TURNED UP TO LAY CLAIMS ON THE ENTITLEMENTS OF FOUR OF THESE CLIENTS.
OUR POLICY, IS TO SEND SEVERAL MESSAGES TO THE EMBASSIES AND HIGH COMMISSIONS FROM WHERE OUR CLIENTS ARE NATIONALIZED TO NOTIFY ALL NEXT OF KINS ABOUT THEIR DECEASED RELATIVES FUNDS IN OUR POSSESSION. AMONG THE REMAINING FOUR DECEASED CLIENTS, ONE IN PARTICULAR DID NOT LEAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HIS NEXT OF KIN. HE IS FROM THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA BY NAME ANDREW KELLER
AND HE LEFT IN OUR BANKS POSSESSION A SUM OF15,000,000 ($15MILLION U.S DOLLARS).
WE HAVE SENT SEVERAL MESSAGES TO THE AMERICAN
AUTHORITIES TO SOURCE FOR HIS NEXT OF KIN OR ANY OF HIS
RELATIVES AND ALL EFFORTS HAVE PROVED ABORTIVE. RECENTLY, WE GOT WIND OF INFORMATION THAT THE FEDERALGOVERNMEN T OF NIGERIA ARE MAKING PLANS TO CONFISCATE THIS
MONEY AND MAYBE SOME OF THEIR TOP OFFICIALS COULD SIT ON THIS MONEY. THIS WAS WHERE WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES TO TRANSFER THIS FUNDS TO ONE OF OUR AFFILIATES IN EUROPE. AS YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL AND ARE READING IT, THE FUND IS IN THIS FINANCE HOUSE IN EUROPE AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE SOURCING FOR
A RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON TO ASSIST US IN CLAIMING THIS FUND UNDER THE GUISE OF BEING THE NEXT OF KIN TO OUR DECEASED CLIENT.
ALL YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO IS TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND I WILL FURNISH YOU WITH ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS THAT YOU NEED TO OBTAIN THIS FUND YOUR SHARE OF THIS MONEY WILL BE 20% YOU ARE TO KEEP THIS TRANSACTION SOLELY TO YOUR SELF ALONE.PLEASE REPLY ME ONLY
TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL :pbaker240@yahoo.com
REGARDS.
PAUL BAKER
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