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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: kelven1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:29:21 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PLAESE=20REPLY=20TO=20kelvenmathus01=40yahoo=2Ecom?=
Dear Friend,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.
However We were directed last year by the council of ministers to carry
out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign
customers and to effect payments immediately.
During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5M
(Ten million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.
Since we got information about his death, which the bank have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash.
Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about
the Plane Crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1390626,00.html
It is therefore upon this discovery that I send this business proposal to
you so that the fund can be release to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and the bank don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill,
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account where the fund will be transfer,
and 60% would be for me, while 10% will be for expenses incure during the
transaction.
There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication
and location wherein the money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of
the application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction
will only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do
and move
the fund into your account without any delay and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear.
You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will
send you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data information
of the deceased,
PLAESE REPLY TO kelvenmathus01@yahoo.com
Yours faithfully.
MR KELVEN MATHUS
Bill & Exchange Manager,
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