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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: "M. Festus" <festusmaseko@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:25:01 -1000
Subject: please respond to this e-mail
Dear Sir,
I am Mr.Festus Maseko, manager of bills/exchange at the
foreign remittance department of ABSA Bank. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of Fourteen
Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
only in an account that belonged to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family, on
November 1996, in a ghastly plane crash, and he
happened to be a Foreigner. Since we got the
information about his death, we have been expecting
his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money
because we can not release it unless somebody applied
for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this
money. It is based on this that some officials in my
department and I have decided to establish a cordial
business relationship with you, hence by contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of
kin through your relation with the deceased, so that
the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bills. The banking law
and guidelines here stipulates that any account
abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is
deemed closed and all money contained therein
forfeited to the government treasury account. Now, it
is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an
unclaimed fund on or before the end of this financial
quarter of 2006, when nobody come forward to lay
claims. The reason for requesting you to present
yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by, the fact
that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we
have access to his detailed bio data which you will
hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of
kin.
Therefore, you are expected to reply this
letter indicating your readiness and interest to
participate in this business. After receiving your
reply, you will be communicated to with the exact
steps to take.
I expect your urgent response through my email address
: festusmaseko@gmail.com and I shall contact you for
further discussion on this matter, to enable us
conclude this transaction urgently without any delay
or hitch. Please treat this business proposal as
strictly confidential for security reasons considering
my official position in ABSA Bank.
Regards,
Mr. Festus Maseko
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