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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: "Alan Danyel" <alan-danyel@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:27:19 +0200
Subject: A next of kin needed to claim wealth
I am Mr. Alan Danyel, a banker who works with a local bank here in South
Africa. I am the account officer to a foreigner who is a Citizen of your
Country, he worked for the Petrochemical Support Services Company of South
Africa.
My client was involved motor accident on the 16th of January, 2001 and later
that same day he died. Since then I have made several inquiries to your
country's Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, but this
has proved unsuccessful.
I have also visited your Country in search of his relatives early this year
but still could not locate his relations. After these several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to contact you today privately as a total stranger, with
hope that you are a reliable and trustworthy person, to help, or find a
trustworthy individual that will assist and secretly secure the money left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
his Bank since the mandatory five year waiting period, allowed by South
African law, has expired. It is important that my contact
be somebody who can in no way be identified with me in order to avoid
suspicion of insider dealing.
Particularly, the Bank were the deceased had an Account valued at about $USD
33.5 Million Dollars has issued me an urgent notice yesterday to provide the
next of kin or have the Account confiscated within 10 working days, hence
this is why I am contacting you. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating
the relatives, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased as you are also a foreigner(you just have to answer the same name
with my client) so that the proceed of this Account valued at $USD 33.5
Million Dollars (Thirty Three million five hundred thousand united states
dollars ),minus interest, can be paid to you and then you and me can share
the money, 60% for me and 40% for you. You don’t need any experience to do
this, I have all necessary legal documents that will beused to back up all
claims we will make with your name.
All I require from you is your honest co-operation and full guarantee and
assurance that you shall hand me over my 60% in good faith and also assist
me in investing some of my share in a lucrative business in your country
because I shall come over to your country immediately it is done.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law, making it 100% risk free on
your side. Expecting tohear from you soonest, by return e-mail to
danyelalan@hotmail.com or alternatively to this fax number: +27115075635 so
that we can commence action immediately.
Best regards to you and your family.
I await your urgent response.
Mr. Alan Danyel
danyelalan@hotmail.com
Tel:+27 829348807
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