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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: james williams <jameswilliams_15@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear VICTIMNAME
Barr. James Williams,(Principal Attorney)
Intercontinental Chambers.
Intercontinental Plaza,
Lagos Nigeria.
EMAIL: jwill15@post.cz
Dear VICTIMNAME,
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything will be well at the end of the sucessfull execution of this business. My name is Mr. James Williams, I am the principal partner at Intercontinetal Chambers, Lagos-Nigeria. I write you in respect of a foreign client with us, before his sudden death. His name is Engr. Dahlia Faiz VICTIMNAME, He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria in the year 2002 May 4th.
Since the demise of this our Client, Engr. Dahlia Faiz VICTIMNAME, who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had Deposit valued $6.7 Million Dollars in his a/c at Citi Bank Nigeria Limited.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, i was mandated by the board of directors of the bank to provide the next of kin to the engineer, hence I hereby ask for your cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you, since you are from the same country and was sharing the same last name. At this point I am the only one with the information because I am his lawyer.
Importantly, i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a Nigerian cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss the ratio of disbursement between us.
Finally, I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the processing of the transfer in your name and favour.
Best Regards,
Barr. James Williams (Principal Attorney)
Intercontinental Chambers.
Please reply strictly to jwill15@post.cz and call me through my telephone number 234-805-581-9205.
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