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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: "davecoleman" <davecoleman@bol.com.br>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:15:32 -0300
Subject: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME!
FROM THE DESK OF DAVE COLEMAN
Department:senior manager accounts/audit
LA CAIXA BANCO SPAIN
ATTENTION :PLEASE I DO NOT WISH TO EMBARRASS YOU IN ANY
WAY.
Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail
to you. Although we never met before,but I have every
reason to believe that you are a highly respected
personality, considering the fact that I got your E-
mail address through internet my online network, while
searching for a reliable and reputable person to handle
this transaction.
I am a senior manager accounts/audit in LA CAIXA BANCO
SPAIN. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my
office that will be of imense benefit to both of us. In
my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
€10.5million Euro(Ten million five hundred thousand
Euro Only) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American
who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January
31\2000,including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this
site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin
being his only daughter died along with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this
fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and two other officials in this
department now decided to make business with you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or
beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and we don't want this money to go back into Government
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
such money remained after six years the money will be
transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner,while the balance will be for my
colleagues and I. I
will visit your country for the disbursement according
to
the percentages indicated above once this money gets
into your account. Please be honest to me.
To commence this transaction, we require you to
immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail and enclose the
following information:
1. Full name
2: Your private telephone number and Fax number.
3. Occupation and Nationality.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail contact me through my
private e-mail address (davecoleman1999@yahoo.com)
Please note that all the necessary arrangement for the
smooth release of these funds to you has been
finalised.
We will discuss much in details when I do receive your
response.
Best regards
Dave Coleman
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