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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: "Barrister Joseph Olufemi" <barr_josepholufemi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jose_olu@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:40:20 +0000
Subject: BE THE NEXT OF KIN TO MY LATE CLIENT
JOSEPH OLUFEMI CHAMBERS&CO
LEGAL PRACTITIONER AND PUBLIC NOTARY &
HIGH COURT REPRESENTATIVE
SUITE 202 OMEGA PLAZA, APAPA
LAGOS -NIGERIA,
GOOD DAY,
All though this letter may appear as a surprise to you, but I will
appreciate if you can make out time to go through my message.
I am Barrister Joseph Olufemi a solicitor at law and personal attorney
to my late client Mr Alexander Vigil a National of your country,
He was formally a director with Kobe Steel Corporation company, a
Japanese company that constructed the Liquidified Natural Gas Company in
Eleme-River state Nigeria. My late client, his wife and their three children
were involved in a motor accident along Sagbama express road Port Harcourt
Rivers State Nigeria and unfortunately the family died in the accident.Prior
to his death,
my late client deposited $9.2 million (nine million two hundred thousand
united states dollars) with a security company in Europe.The status now is
that my client left no will or any information about his next of kin and
since then I have made several inquiries to your country's Embassy to locate
any of my late clients extended Relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last
name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you.
If I inform the company of my late client about the fund, they will
definitely want to claim it from the security company. In view of this,
I have decided to contact you to assist me in getting this fund from the
security company since nobody has any knowledge of the deposited fund.We can
get the fund from the security company in Europe, since you have the same
name with my late client;
I will use your name to get all legal documents from the federal high
court presenting you as the executor of my client's estate and also is next
of kin, since I have his death certificate with me. I believe this is
privileged information which I expect you to keep confidential and
secret because of my profession.
The business will not take us time since all we need is to get the
probate documents from the court which I will fax to the company to inform
them that you are the next of kin to my client and beneficiary of the
fund.The deposited fund can be transferred direct to your bank account
through the consultants of the security company in Europe as soon as we
conclude the documentation process. I am ready to give you 40% of the total
sum for your co-operation.
If you are willing to assist me in getting the funds which we both will
benefit from, send me your full name/complete mailing address as I will
need it for the Legal documents. I will also need your direct telephone/fax
numbers as I will like a faster communication medium.
Your soonest response is anticipated.
Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.
Barrister Joseph Olufemi.
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