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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: johnsonbadan@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:10:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Treat As Urgent
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: johnbadan11@yahoo.com
- Dear friend, I am Mr.Johnson Badan,an Attorney at law, and the Personal lawyer to Eng. William McGee,a foreigner from Australia,Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client. As it may interest you to know, Your contact was giving to me by divine aspiration at the office of the Chamber of commerce and Tourism in Jakarta-Indonesia as I was going through some directories. I decided to contact you in order to champion such a business magnitude without any problem. On the 26th of December 2004,my client,his wife and their only daughter were involved in th Tsunami disaster off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia while arriving from a Holiday to Jakarta. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Indonesia. Web site: www.indiana.edu/~pepp/earthquakes/sumatra12_26_04.htm, Since then, I have made several inquiries to their embassy to locate any of their extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the fund !
valued at US$20.5m,(Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars),left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited.The said bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days. The bank cannot release the money unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in their banking guidelines. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over two years now, I seek your consent to present as the next of kin to the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account can be release to you as the beneficiary for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go back into Bank treasury as unclaimed bill. Therefore, I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion o!
f this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gr
atification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 65% will be for me. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Upon your acceptance to this proposal,I suggest that you reply through my private email address, for the confidentiality of this transaction. I expect your urgent response indicating your full interest in this great business transaction to our both mutual trust.Your private email, telephone and fax number will be need for our easy communication. Sincerely, Mr.Johnson Badan. Esq.
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