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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: "Tolu Johnson" <tolujohnson1@t-johnson.org>
Reply-To: tolu@ukrpost.net
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:51:16 +0000
Subject: Assistance
Assistance
Compliments of the season!
I want to bring to your knowledge of a very lucrative
business Opportunity, which I will like you to consider as a golden
opportunity worth Doing. I have some money lodged in a private security
vault out side Nigeria and I would require your cooperation as a partner to
claim it out from the security vault as the beneficiary.I work with the Citi
Trust Bank of Nigeria as a permanent secretary in The Governors office; Cash
payment Desk and I endorse diplomatic clearance for the diplomats who
accompany contractor’s funds in cash to several countries for contract
payments. Presently there are two boxes that contain $17,000,000.00 and in
each of the boxes, it contains $7,000,000.00 and $10,00.000.00 respectively
.
These two boxes was supposed to be for contract payment of one contractor
from Dominican Republic, who died but non of his next of kin has come to
claim the funds. The governor of the Citi Trust Bank of Nigeria then filled
in a paper that I should endorse it for the funds to be returned to the
government treasury. I did not endorse it but rather decided to divert it
and moved it out of the country to a private security vault so as to use
anyone that will be interested to work with me as a partner and claim the
boxes abroad.
I have all necessary documents like the Deposit
Certificate and other relevant documents which I will give to you to qualify
you as the owner of the boxes. You will then get in touch with the person in
charge of the security vault to notify them your intention to travel to
Europe to pick up the boxes, then you will be informed the location of the
security vault to enable you prepare yourself for the trip.
Please act fast to get in touch with me so that we can
begin immediately to arrange getting the boxes out before it accumulates
much charge due to the daily charges of $100.00 per day as the boxes has
been there for quite a long time now. And for your compensation, I would not
be greedy because it is not my personal money, we will share it equally
(50%, 50%) as partners.
Finally, I am a 54yrs old, married with four children,
Please NOTE your reply MUST only be sent via this Email
address is: < tolu@ukrpost.net > I am sure you know that this is a very
sensitive transaction that requires absolute secrecy and trust, you must
therefore not disclose this transaction to anybody. I am waiting for your
email reply urgently via my above email.
Yours faithfully,
Mr .Tolu Johnson
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