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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: "stanley reed" <reed2@planetlawyers.net>
Reply-To: stanleyreeds@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:16:04 +0000
Subject: HELLO
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your interest concerning this viable business proposal, I am
willing to let you into this transaction. Hence, I resolved to let you into
further details and explanation concerning the procedure of this pending and
viable business transaction. Please feel free to ask questions on areas
which appear not to be crystal clear and the need for strict secrecy due to
the magnitude of the funds as we are certain that proper management of
information is the most necessary ingredient for a 100% realization of our
objective. I must at this juncture extend my assurance that as long as you
follow my instructions promptly and accordingly this transaction will be
successful. Please, read below the details of this transaction and what is
required of you to get this transaction started:
Mr. Andrew Parker was my client for over a decade. He died of cardiac arrest
in 2002. He had a deposit in the sum of US$45M with a security company in
Amsterdam.
The security company contacted me as Mr. Andrew Parker’s attorney to get his
next of kin. I have not been able to get any of his relations. The security
company now has the right to confiscate the funds if I do not produce his
next of kin soonest. This is the reason why I contacted you so you can act
as the next of kin.
If you provide me with your full name, telephone/fax number and address, I
will prepare and send to you a memorandum of understanding which will have
to be duly signed by both parties (your good self and I) as an agreement, so
as to protect the shares of both parties and to be in order by laws of your
country and the laws of my country.
After the signing of the MOU, I will then email to you the death certificate
of Andrew Parker and also the deposit certificate of the funds in Amsterdam.
I will prepare a Will in your name, making you the next of kin. I will
forward this Will to the security company. They will then contact you to
come to their office in Amsterdam to claim the said funds.
When you get to their office in Amsterdam, you sign the funds release
documents, they will then transfer the sum of US$45M into your nominated
account. I will then travel to meet with you to share the proceeds. I will
take 80% and you will take 20%.
I will exhort you to not only treat this transaction with the gravity it
deserves, but also with urgency. May I reiterate that the importance of the
confidentiality and speed in this transaction cannot be over emphasized.
Hence in bolstering of confidentiality you are advised against discussing
with anyone or your bank the expectation of the funds until I advise you
otherwise. Please treat as urgent. Send the information ASAP as time is of
the essence.
Thank you once again and God bless you
Barrister Stanley Reeds
N/B Kindly call me on my direct telephone number 44 7040118021.
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