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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: "LABARAN UMARU" <labaran01@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: labaran_mgq@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:15:27 -0800
Subject:
Dear Friend,
Good-day!
I can’t imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden
business letter from a remote country in far away West
Africa and probably from some one you have not closely
related with. But all the same, I believe we do not
need to be of blood relatives before we can establish
cordial/business relationship. Having said this, I
think it is very important at this juncture to
introduce myself to you and also disclose to you, how
I came in contact with your email address/profile. My
name is Mr. Umaru Labaran, I am the district(Foreign
operations) manager of African Development Bank Group,
Nigerian branch. I got your email address from the
Internet. It is my pleasure to solicit your assistance
in this business proposal. I am contacting you because
I do not want to transact the business with anybody
who is known to any staff of this bank or anybody
around here to avoid any possible blackmail or leakage
at the end of the transaction.
THE PROPOSAL:
There is an account in this bank, African Development
Bank Group, which was opened in 1982 by one Mr. Norman Anderson , an Australian National, who worked in a Scottish owned Petro-Chemical Company (Petro technical support services Nigeria Ltd) and since 1990 nobody has operated on this account. I had a very careful study of the account files through which I carried an extensive investigation about the holder of the said account and found out that Mr. Anderson suddenly died in a plane crash in 1990 thereby abandoning the account, having been fictitious regards the information he submitted to this bank at the time
of establishment of the account. The account at this
moment has no inheritance since the name Mr. Anderson
filled, as his relations has no contact information
in the form he submitted to the bank. I have secretly
removed all the relevant files to the account from the
dormant section so that bank auditors will not verify
the abandoned money and refer it to Federal Treasury
via CBN. Credit balance of the said account is US$45.25m.
My Dear Friend, the deal here is that the money in
this account will be approved and remitted to any
foreigner who shows up as relation to Mr. Anderson
provided such person has correct information to the
account. I have such needed information and will hand
it over to you as soon as we commence the transaction.
I will source all necessary documents and forward them
to you for direct submission to the bank. With my
position as the foreign operations manager we will
quietly remove this money from the bank without
hitches. I don’t have any problem in regularizing all
necessary documents and transferring the credit
balance of the said account to your nominated bank
account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I have
spent months in trying to get an overseas reliable
contact. It is worthy to note that people are
unreliable these days and even derive joy in telling
lies. On this ground I request your unreserved but
sincere cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out
this transaction so that no one amongst both of us
shall defraud each other at the end. I am prepared to
split at 60%---40% for you, provided that mine (60%)
will be intact at the end. Please get back to me via
email as a matter of urgency or call me on my private
telephone line.
Awaits for your expected co-operation.
Best regards,
Labaran
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