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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: <williamwilliam_morris@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:31:02 -0400
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
FROM THE DESK OF:MR.WILLIAM MORRIS
NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK,
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.
FROM THE DESK OF : WILLIAM MORRIS
Compliments of the day,
Before proceeding, I wish to introduce myself to you; I am William Morris
a staff of Natwest Bank plc, London working in the accounts department. I
am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal which I believe will profit the both of us after completion. I
contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of
handling this business transaction, which I explained below.
There is this immigrant (Michael Gambone) who was a gas consultant here in
UK, who happens to be one of our very good clients. He died with his
wife(Deborah Gambone)on board the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into
the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The news of this crash
was on the news which we have notified his relatives to no avail.See links
below for more detail information:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
Before his death, he was having a closing balance of $55,500,000.00 (fifty
five million five hundred thousand dollars only) in my branch with account
no: 01514770727 & deposit code no: nwbbaxbsl. Upon maturity, a routine
notification was forwarded to his address but we got no reply.
All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that (Mr.Michael Gambone) did not
declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents,
including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank. This sum of
us$55,500,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 2000 in my bank as
all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British Law, the money will revert to the ownership of
the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this
money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have
decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin so
that the said fund (us$55.5m) would be released in your name as the next
of kin and paid into your account before I come over to meet you for
sharing. All documents and proof that will have you claim this fund
without stress will be forwarded to you upon your response to this mail
more so, I want to inform you that I have unanimously agreed to offer you
30% of the sum for the assistance and role you are going to play in this
transaction, 20% will be given to charity organizations while the
remaining will be my share. As a Christian, i cannot stand and see this
money being sent to the British treasury while the poor suffer.
Please send your confidential telephone and fax number in your reply to
this business transaction.
God bless you.
Mr. William Morris
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