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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: "Festus Keyamo" <festus_mo@msn.com>
Reply-To: barfestus_mo@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:37:51 +0000
Subject: I EXPECT YOUR REPLY VERY SOON
Dear Friend,
My name is Barrister k Festusa legal practitioner and the
personal attorney to national of your country who died with his wife
and two sons in a plane crash on the 4th of May, 2002.
After the death of my client, his bank contacted me, as his Attorney to
provide his next-of-kin who should inherit his funds.
The board of directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was
mandated to provide his next-of-kin for the payment of this money or
forfeit the money to the federal government treasury account as an abandoned
property.
After making several unsuccessful attempts to locate his relatives, I
decided to trace his relatives through the Internet inorder to locate
any member of his family yet nothing came out of it.The bank had planned to
invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to confisticate the funds after
the expiration of the period given to me. My late client was a successful
businessman, an oil magnet here in Nigeria and he left behind a deposit
of($20,722,000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank
here in Lagos.
I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally
proper to present you as the next-of-kin of my deceased client, so that you
can be paid the funds left in his bank account.
PLEASE SEE THE WEBSITE BELOW FOR CONFIRMATION:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
The procedure for approval is simple.Once you indicate your interest,
an affidavit of claim will be made and a letter of admnistration will be
obtained from the probate Registry which will authorise the release of
the funds to you. An application letter will also be sent to the bank
informing them of our intention to claim the funds this documents and some
others will be notarised and forwarded to the legal department of the Bank
for vetting and approval.As you can see everything will follow a normal
legal process,thereby assuring you that you are not exposing yourself to any
legal problem. I will back up all necessary documents that will be required
at the court.You dont have to worry about any risk. All I require is your
honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.
All that is required from you is as follows:
1.Your Full name and postal address as you want them to appear in the
document here.
(2)Your banking informations were you like the funds to be transfered.
(3) Private telephone number and fax number
As you can see time is of great essence as the bank has given me
deadline.We shall both share the funds this way; 60% for me while 30% will
go for your contribution. 10% should be for expenses cured during the
process of transfer.Contact me as soon as possible so that I will intimate
you with the details.But if you are not interested,indicate by sending an
email so that I can look for someone who will be interested.
I await your anticipated response.
Thank you.
Barrister k Festus
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