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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: "Lucky Egwe" <lucky_egwe@msn.com>
Reply-To: ahmedaiko@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:14:29 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE
>From The Desk Of Dr. Lucky Egwe
Standard Trust Bank Of Nigeria Plc.
40/45 Marina Lagos.
E-mail: ahmed_aiko@london.net
E-mail:ahmedaiko@yahoo.it
Dear Sir/Madam,
I REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN THIS TRANSACTION
I am Dr. Lucky Egwe the Manager Bill and Exchange of the Foreign
Operations Department standard trust Bank Plc . I am writing in
respect of a foreign customer of my bank with Account Number:058100
654011-52 Mr.Christian Eich, who died in Monday, 31 July,2000, 13:22
GMT
14:22 UK in a plane crash.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$30.5m Dollars
( US Dollars) in an account that belonging to one of our foreign
customer.Who died along with his entire family in Monday, 31 July,
2000 in a plane crash in Paris.
Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors
brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless s some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or
relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody
behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next
of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Nigeria cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner.
I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foreign account ,10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 50% would be for me Thereafter, I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of
this fund to your designated bank account ,you must apply first to
the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text
of application that I will send to you,so I will like you to send
to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the
text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice
this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
please reply this e-mail:ahmedaiko@yahoo.it
thanks
Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Lucky Egwe
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