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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: "harriston miller" <harristionmiller2@msn.com>
Reply-To: harristonmiller2006@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:02:37 +0000
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE
Dear Sir/Madam.
My name is Harriston Miller,I am the credit manager in a bank here in the
United Kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of
the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in an
air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian
airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the
website below which was published by CNN.WEBSITE.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May his soul
rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone
applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by me for the funds (US$5,000,000.00) to be released in
your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.
Because after six years the money will be called back to the bank treasury
as unclaimed
bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on
this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share
this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order
of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name….In order for me to prepare the document for transfer
of the funds in your name.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers…….For our personal contact and mutual
trust in each other. Upon your acceptance I shall send you a copy of my
international passport and drivers license for more confidentiality and
trust.
I shall be compensating you with a million dollars ($1Million dollars) on
final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while the balance $4
million dollars shall be for me for investment purposes. Because I intend to
retire after the conclusion of this transaction. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take
undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent
mail to my personal email address:cc_harrison3@yahoo.com
Regards,
Harriston
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