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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: "Chinedu Akpa" <chineduakpa1960@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: chineduakpa2005@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:32:45 +0100
Subject: Greetings to you,
Greetings to you,
I am Barrister Chinedu Akpa, I am the Personal Attorney to Morris Thompson a
National of America, who used to work with Doyon Ltd and also a partner to
Agip Energy & Natural Resources here in Nigeria. On the 31st of January
2000, my client, his wife (Mrs. Thelma Thompson) and their Daughter (Miss.
Sheryl Thompson) were involved in a plane crash (Alaska Airlines Flight
261), which crashed into the Pacific Ocean, go through the websites for more
information (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/)
Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the crash, Since
then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these
several attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to
locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind
by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank where this huge deposit were lodged here in Nigeria. Particularly, the
Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $16.5 million U.S
dollars (Sixteen million, five hundred thousand dollars).
Consequently, The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I
have been unsuccessfully in locating the relatives for over 6 years now. I
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since
you are a foreigner so that the proceeds of this account valued at $16.5
million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the
money, 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as
your government may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further,
Am in Nigeria presently and can be reached through my phone numbers.
Please note that this business is confidential and risk free, we must keep
it secret till the funds gets to your account.
Yours Faithfully,
Barrister Chinedu Akpa
N.B: Please indicate your full interest by including telephone and fax
numbers and also reach me through my private email address
chineduakpa2006@yahoo.co.uk
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