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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.Markus Thomson" <markus_thomson@cariaccess.com>
Reply-To: markus_thomson20033@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:02:47 -0500
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
GULF BANK PLC,
GULF BANK HOUSE,
17, Bello Way
V/Island Lagos.
Nigeria.
E-mail :(markus_thomson2003@yahoo.com)
Attn: The president/CEO
Dear Sir/Madam,
URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one 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 we
have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in transaction
of this nature.
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Dr. MARKUS THOMSON
Credit Officer with the GULF BANK PLC, Lagos. I came to know you in my
Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to handle this
Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of Huge Sum of Money
to a Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence.
THE PROPOSITION:
A Foreigner an Australian, Late Engr. EDMOND WHYTE, Oil Merchant with The
Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death years ago in Kenya Air Bus
(A310 -300) Flight KQ430, Banked with us at Gulf Bank Plc, Lagos and had a
closing balance as at the end of September, 2000 worth S$7.5M (SEVEN MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) the bank now expects a next Of
kin as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank of
Nigeria to get in touch with any of the EDMONDS'S FAMILY or Relatives but to
no success.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any
of Late Engr. Edmond White’s next of kin (He had no wife or children that is
known to us). The Management under the influence of our Chairman and
Members of the Board of
Directors, that arrangement has been made for the fund to be declared
"Unclaimed" and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms and
ammunition to further enhance the course of War in Africa and the World in
General.
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
Engr. Edmond White, so that the fund US$7.5M will be released and paid into
your Account as the beneficiary's Next of kin. All documents and proves to
enable you get this fund Will be carefully worked out.
We have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring you that this business
is 100% Risk Free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me
and my colleagues for Investment purpose, according to agreement within both
parties.
As soon as we receive an acknowledgment of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, we would furnish you with the
necessary modalities and details that will guide you claim these funds.
For your participation in this transaction, you shall part with 20% of this
total amount, my colleagues and I will have 70% while 10% will be set aside
for external contigencies.we would like to invest our own share in a
lucrative business in your
Country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you, reply to email :(
markus_thomson2003@yahoo.com)
Best Regards.
Dr.Markus Thomson.
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