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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: "Stephen Kezler" <steveokez11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stevekezler@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:36:19 -0800
Subject: Asset Claim
Office of Corporate/International Banking
Bills and Exchange,
Standard Chartered Bank (22 Billiter Street, London EC3M 2RY, England)
Attention:
Please permit me to contact you through this medium. I know that the
contents of this email will come to you as a surprise and may make you
apprehensive especially since it is coming from a total stranger but I hope
you will agree to my proposition. I look forward to your earliest reply at
my private email address at stevekezler@yahoo.co.uk and please do not forget
to include your private telephone number and the best time to reach you so
that I can give you a call to further discuss my proposition and we can also
get to know each other better. I am Mr. Stephen Kezler, head of the Office
of Corporate/International Banking Bills and Exchange, Standard Chartered
Bank (22 Billiter Street, London EC3M 2RY, England)
During my audit exercise I discovered an abandoned sum of US$14,320,000.00
(fourteen million three hundred and twenty thousand United States dollars)
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers from your
country, an estate tycoon who died along with his wife and entire family on
25th July, 2000 in an Air France Concorde flight 4590 plane crash. Since his
death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims
for this money as the heir. Standard Chartered Bank cannot release the fund
from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, no family
member or relative has appeared to claim the said fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I would want you to act as the next of kin
to our late. This way, his estates will be transferred and paid to your
account as the beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned
to treasury as unclaimed funds and will be subsequently confiscated by the
British government at the expiration of a five year duration. All documents
to enable you receive this funds will be carefully worked out. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavor by furnishing me with your name and address to enable us file
letters of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in
your favour before the transfer can be made.
Our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus: on final conclusion of this
project, 60% of the money shall be for me, while 35% shall be for you and
the remaining 5% shall be used to compensate either party for any expenses
incurred. Your share 35% stays at your discretion while my 60% share shall
be used for investment purposes in your country. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust reposed in you.
For your confirmations, you can visit this website for more info:
www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Best Regards,
Mr Stephen Kezler
Email: stevekezler@yahoo.co.uk
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