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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: "Maclord Ubah" <info@maclordubah.com>
Reply-To: maclord_ubah1@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:52:12 +0000
Subject: next of kin .
FROM THE DESK OF:Barrister Maclord Ubah
Bill and Exchange Director,
GROOVE WOOD FINANCE TRUST COMPANY.HQ,
MARINA, LAGOS.
ATTN :
Dear Sir/Ma,
Please do not be so much worried to read this from me. It was hashed out
from my curious search in the Internet that I came across your name and
company. I then decided to write to you to see if we can handle this deal
together, knowing fully well that you have been exposed enough. First and
foremost, my name is Barrister Maclord Ubah, and I am working with the
Groove wood Finance Trust Company Head Office in Marina-Lagos.
I am the Director in charge Bills and Exchange at the foreign remittance
Department. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US
dollars (Fiften million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in the Bomb Blast of
January 27th, 2003.Since we got 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 or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him,
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement, since
nobody is coming for it, and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remains
unclaimed, after four years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 40% of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, since you are going to
provide the foreign account in which this fund will be remitted. 10% will be
set aside for expenses incurred during the cause of the transaction and 50 %
would be for my colleagues and me. There after my colleagues and I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your Name, your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communications and location wherein the money will be
remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer, and moreover
we in the bank will handle and supervise the transfer with all neccessary
proof in your name indicating that you are the authorized next of kin to our
late client.
Please remember to keep this deal secret and confidential even if you are
not buying the idea. You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this mail.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Barrister Maclord Ubah,
Bill and exchange Director,
Groove wood Finance Trust Company.
You can reach me by email: maclord_ubah1@yahoo.fr
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