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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: "DR ORJI RICHARD" <drorjirichard@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drorjirichard@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:28:22 +0000
Subject: TO YOU DEAR FRIEND
FROM BARRISTER DR. ORJI RICHARD
DEDE CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES
BLOCK 222 VICTORIA ISLAND.
ATTN: Dear Friend.
May I solicit your confidence and honesty in the transaction of this
business, which by its nature requires absolute transparency nurtured by a
strong conscience. Its obvious that you do not know me, hence this little
introduction. My name is Barr. Orji Richard, the personal Attorney to Late
Engineer Patrick Richard, a national of your country who was a contractor
with Shell Petroleum (SPDC), On the 21st of April 2002, our client, his wife
and two children were involved in an auto crash along Abuja express road and
incidentally lost their lives.
During his time in the Country, he was a renowned philanthropist as he built
and sponsored KANE FOUNDATION in Delta State single-handedly (Center For The
Deaf and Dumb) which has been taken over by the Government after his death.
Since then, I have made several enquiries to your embassy in order to locate
any of his extended relatives, but this has proved unsuccessful. After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his Last name over the
Internet; hence I and the entire management of SPDC contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and Property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable
where he deposited the sum of US$15.7 million dollars. But this will be
possible under one condition;
That you are going to use at least 40% of the total sum to build or sponsor
a charitable organization in any part of the world of your choice, which
will be named after him, since his life on earth was marked with such
gestures. (My Opinion)
The banking guidelines of Bank. Stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed for Over a period of 3years and few months, with the account
Unserviceable the money will be confiscated and this will happen in the near
future if nobody comes for the money since we have not seen any body for the
money and his property for the last two years and bank has Been notifying
the Rotary club for the past one year. Now I seek your Consent to present
yourself as
the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so
that the proceeds of this account valued at US$15.7 million dollars can
be paid to you.
I surely know that this will make you apprehensive, but you can contact me
to erase any kind of fear, which you might entertain.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Best regards,
Barr.Orji Richard
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)
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