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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: "MC KEVIN" <obaacc@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:40:44 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY,
ATTENTION VERY URGENT !
I am Barrister Kevin McMurray(Esq), a Briton and the Personal
Attorney of Mr. George Edson, a national of your country, who
worked with Chevron Oil Company in England. On the 21st of April
1999, my client, his wife and their three children got involved in
a car accident along Chelsea Highway Road that claims the lives of
all occupants of the vehicle. It was a very sad news and since
then, I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any
of the extended relatives of my late client which proved
unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach
his family, l decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to
locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted
you.
I have contacted you on trust to assist me in receiving the
money left behind by my client in his bank account valued at about
Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. His account
is about to be confiscated and declared dormant by his bank due to
lack of claim resulting from my inability to present his
beneficiary as his Attorney known to his bank over these years.
Particularly, the officials of his Bank have issued to me a
notice/ultimatum to provide the next of kin of my client or
have the account confiscated within the next ten official working
days.Since l have been unsuccessful in locating his relatives over
these years, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
of the deceased since you bear same surname with my late client so
that the proceeds of his estate worth Ten Million Six Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars can be paid you as his next of kin
for our mutual benefit.
The sharing percentage is as follow if only you will be faithful
and honest to assist me, 30% for your assistance as next of kin,
65% to me and remaining 5% should be for expenses or tax as your
government may require.All necessary legal documents that will back
up your claim of this money will be secured in your name with the
personal and private information of my late client in line with the
stipulations of the English law. All I require from you is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee
you that this business will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further steps
to follow in the actualization of this objective.
Best Regards,
Kevin McMurray(Esq),
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