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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: "BEN MC NAMARA( Icon Trust Finance. )" <icontrusrfinance2000@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: icontrustfin@dublin.com
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:11:54 -0700
Subject: Need your assistance.
Icon Trust Finance.
Dublin – Ireland
FAX: 353 – 1 – 6335365
e-mail: icontrustfin@dublin.com
Our Ref:.....OPF/ITF/VOL 1/04
ATTENTION: DEAR SIR.
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and secret. Though I know that transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as well have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in the transaction of this nature.
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Ben Mc Namara, Credit /Account Officer with IconTrust Finance Dublin, Ireland. I came to know you through an Attorney in United States of America, who is a business consultant with our finance house. Who also assured me about your reliability to handle this confidential transaction, which involves unclaimed fund of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
THE PROPOSITION
A Foreign, French citizen, late Engr. John Pierre an oil merchant and Construction Engineer with the Kuwait Republic, until his death last two years in China Air Bus (A310-300) flight Kg30. had a deposit with us at Icon trust house, closing balance as at the end of May 2002, worth €15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros only), the finance house now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made to get in touch with any of Pierre’s family or relatives but to no avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of his next of kin (he had no wife or children known to us.) That the Management, under the influence of our chairman and members of the board of Directors, have made arrangements for the fund to be declared “Unclaimed”
In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues and I, now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to late John Pierre, so that the fund €15,500,000.00 Million will be released and paid to your account as beneficiary or next of kin. All documents and proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. We have secured from the probate an Order or Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so, we are assuring you that this business is 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest will be for myself and my colleagues for investment purpose according to agreement with both parties. As soon as we receive as acknowledgement receipt of this acceptance of our mutual business proposal, most preferably by email, we would furnish you with the necessary disbursement ratio to suite both parties without any conflict.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you, get in touch with me immediately through the email address I provided you, or by fax: 00353- 1 - 6335365
Note: All the funds deposit documents are in my position, secondly all the modalities of the deposit fund for clearance have been worked out as the Account Officer and the chairman of the finance house.
BEN MC NAMARA
Audit/Account Officer.
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