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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: "Dr Edward Anderson" <ed_ward@z6.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: edward_anderson@z6.com
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:10:19 +0400
Subject: PLS RESPOND
Dear,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat
it serious. I am Dr. Edward Anderson, a banker
of the Mashreq Bank Plc Dubai, UAE. I am the Accounts
officer of Engineer Michael Moriss, a national of
your Country, who was until his death, a contractor
and Crude Oil merchant in UAE. You will read more
about the crash on this site,
news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html
Michael, his wife and their children were involved in
the Kenya airline plane crash on the 1st of Feb. 2000.
Since then I as his accounts officer in the bank, have made
several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of
Michael's extended relatives/available next of kin,
without any success. I came across your name and
contact, on the course of my personal searching for
Michael's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit
account by Michael, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by my bank. The board of my
bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months from now
and no next of kin shown up for the claim, the funds will be
confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since I and my
team have been unsuccessful in locating Michael's relatives for
sometime now, I seek your consent to present you as
the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a
foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued
at $USD24.5 Million Dollars can be released to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who
has all related information/documents to the bank
account. I am in charge of this matter in my bank, because I am his
accounts officer. Your application will be directed to
my department for verification and approval.
Everything is under my control.
I shall provide you all the information and copy of
the certificate of deposit issued to Michael when he
deposited the funds. I shall also introduce you to an
attorney who shall represent you in all the
appropriate offices for the claim. Please, find in the
attachment, picture of the funds as was taken by my
bank before it was deposited, because the money is a
contract payment made to him by the Saudi Arabian
government. Also is the family picture of Michael
which is in his file. This is just to proof to you
that my proposal is genuine. I also have all necessary
information we need for the claim and once the money
is transferred to you, I shall destroy all the
documents used for the claim and leave no traces.
After everything, you shall have 40% of the total sum,
while 60% for me as I will settle some of my colleagues.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this business successful. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. Michael was a
very good man and it is not wise to allow his hard
earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of
my bank.
Further details awaits your response by email.
PLEASE TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET. Please, confirm the
receipt of the pictures in the attachment, as they
were difficult to attach.
Best Regards
Edward Anderson.
Banker.
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