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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: "Mr. Joseph Mark" <bankersbanks@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bank_of_southafrica@yehey.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 07:59:32 +0100
Subject: Legitimate Business Proposal from ABSA
AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA)
Compliments of the season.
I am Mr. Joseph Mark the manager of bill and exchange Foreign
Operations Department of Amalgamated Bank of South
Africa. I am writing this message to you following an
impressive information l got about you through one of
my friend who runs a consultancy firm. He assured me
of your capability and reliability,although I did not
disclose to him the details of the business I want to
do with you.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$54.7million dollars (fifty four million seven hundred
thousand United States Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along
side his entire family in a fire outbreak in august
2003.
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relation to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately we learnt that about two or three of his
supposed next of kin or relations died a long time ago
eaving nobody with the knowledge of this funds
behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and two other officials in this
department now decided to make business with you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation of the deceased for safety keeping/investment
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and we don't want this money to go back into
Republic of South African Gorvernment account as
unclaimed bill or frozen acount.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
such money remained after six years the money will be
transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner, and l personnaly cannot stand as next
of kin to the foreigner considering the fact that l am
a banker and a South African.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as a
foreign partner, while the balance will be for my
colleagues and I. I will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated
above once this money gets into your account.
Please be honest to me, to enable the immediate
transfer of the funds to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as next of kin to the
deceased.
Upon receipt of your response I will send to you a
text of the application with the name of the deceased
and his country and other information about him.
Note, this transaction is confidential and risk free
and will be executed under careful legitimate
arrangement.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me
through my e-mail
address:amalgamated_bank2004@yahoo.co.in
Best regards
Mr. Joseph Mark
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