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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: "RAWLING DIKE" <rawlingdike_52@msn.com>
Reply-To: rawlingdike_konzult@myway.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:04:09 +0000
Subject: URGENT
Mr Rawling Dike,
United Bank For Africa PLC,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos, Nigeria.
ATTN: MD/CEO
I am Mr Rawling Dike, Branch Manager with United Bank For Africa,ILupeju
Branch,
Lagos, Nigeria.
I have an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that
should be handled with extreme confidentiality.On January 6,1998 a Foreign
Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian Railway Corporation Mr. Abbas
Gumeri by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months
valued at US$18 (eighteen Million United States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers Nigerian Railway Corporation that Mr. Abbas Gumeri died from an
automobile accident.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Mr. Abbas Gumeri did not declare
any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$8M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial and
Security Company in Europe for safekeeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to the Law of my
country, at the expiration of 5 years the money will revert to the ownership
of the State Government) if nobody applies to claim the fund.
This prompted us to contact you.We want to front you as the next of kin of
our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $8
million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security Company in
Europe.
I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and operate
foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in
the Financial and Security Company in Europe.
We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for you if
you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,65% for me while the
remaining 10% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred
during the course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has been
claimed and lodged in your account.
In the event that you are genuinely interested in the transaction,the
following information would be needed from you to expedite action.
1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at
all time because this transaction entails constant communication.
4)Your occupation
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of
risks as all modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success
of the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information for the quick transfer
of this fund.
Please reply to: rawlingdike_konzult@myway.com
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Mr Rawling Dike.
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