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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: "tunji akindele" <akindele_tunji@universia.net.mx> (may be fake)
Reply-To: akindele_tunji@yahoo.com.au
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:57:05 -1200
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE IS NEEDED
Tunji Akindele
United Bank For Africa,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
Attn:
I am Dr.Tobe Adeboye,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 Raymond by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$15.6M (Fifteen Million, Six Hundred 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 Raymond 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 Raymond 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$15.6M 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 7 years the money will revert to the
ownership of the State (Government) if nobody applies to claim the fund.
This prompted i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $15.6 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 yourassistance would be needed to claim the money in the Financial and Security Company in Europe.
I have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sumwould be for you if
you agree to take part in thisprofitable 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 genunely 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
4) Your Age
where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entails
constant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free ofrisks as all
modalities has been perfected to ensurethe hitch free succesof the transaction.If you are interested, send the requested information via my private email box() as soon as possible so that we can proceedand after sending it urgently.
Best Regards,
TUNJI AKINDELE
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