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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: "cyonwa001@handbag.com" <cyonwa001@handbag.com>
Reply-To: cyrilonwa10001@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:13:24 -0700
Subject: YOUR CONSCENT IS NEEDED
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Dr Cyril Onwuasoanya, the eastern district bank! Remittance director
of All States Trust bank of Nigeria Plc . I have an account opened in this
bank in 1980 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again. After
going through some old files in the records i discovered that if i do not
remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Robert Maxwell, a foreigner, and the manager
of Avant engineering services, a mechanical engineer by profession and he
died since 2000. No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me
as well that this company does not know anything about this account and the
amount involved is (USD 21 million dollars) twenty one million US dollars.
I want to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad but I
don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money can not be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved
to any foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former
owner of the account been Mr. Robert Maxwell is a foreigner too. I know that
this massage will come to you as a surprise as we don't know our selves before,
but i assure you that it is real and a genuine business.
I only got your contact address from our country business journal with the
believe in god that you will never let me down in this business ,you are
the only person that i have contacted in this business, so please reply urgently
so that I will inform you on the next step to take urgently. I want us to
see face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that
you can receive this money into your account or any account of your choice
where the fund will be remitted and I will fly to your country for withdrawal
post and sharing and other investments.
However I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with
foreign account and foreign beneficiary. I need your co-operation to make
this work fine, because the management is ready to approve this payment to
any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which i will give
to you later immediately, if you are able and with capability to handle such
amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice
for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in
my life.
Though I need truthful person in ! This business because, I don't want to
make mistake i need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now
in the office I can transfer this money to any foreign reliable account,
which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending
my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will have all documents
of transaction immediately we receive this money for mutual understanding
between you and me when I come to your country for sharing and for investment.
I will apply for annual leave to get a visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to ! Act and receive this fund in your account. I will use
my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries
and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you
will be given 30% of the total amount, 65% will be for me, while 5% will
be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transaction.
Mail me using this email address for security reasons:cyrilonwa10001@yahoo.co.uk
I look forward to your earliest reply by mail.
Yours truly.
Dr Cyril Onwuasoanya
Mail from Dr Cyril Onwuasoanya (ASTB)
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