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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: yomibarnabas01@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:19:01 +0200
Subject: Greetings From Mr. Yomi
From the desk of
Mr Yomi Barnabas,
Accounts Director,
Union Bank plc,
Marina,Lagos-Nigeria.
EMAIL:yomibarnabas@netscape.net
Dear friend
I am Mr Yomi Barnabas, an account director of Union Bank plc Nigeria, I
have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June
6, 1999, a Foreign Construction firm's consultant/contractor in America
Engr. Stevenson Wright made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar
months, valued at US$18,500,000.00, [Eighteen Million, five hundred thousand
US Dollars) in my branch.Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to
his forwarding address, but got no reply. After a month,we sent a reminder
and finally we discovered from his contract employers,that Engr. Stevenson
Wright died on a Plane crash.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL,
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that Engr. Stevenson Wright did not
declare any kin or relations in all his official documentations in Nigeria,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
My reason for deciding to carry out this transaction is that Engineer
Stevenson Wright did not mention any next of kin in any of the
documents held by my bank for the number of years he had banked with us.
Since 1999 we have searched for any body that could be related to lateEngineer
Stevenson Wright I was mandated by the bank to search for a relation of
late Engineer Wright and I did this from January 1999 to December 2001 after
which the search was called off in the belief that soon a relative may turn
up to claim his estate. Nevertheless, as it is, there is no relative.
Now, the Chairman of the bank who is a retired soldier has indicated his
intentions for the money to be donated the money to a military trust if
it is not claimed soon, this invariably means the continuous flow of more
arms and ammunition. I know for sure that not all of the money will go to
the military trust some will surely line his pockets and that of anybody
who is in support of his plan.
My plan is to get a trust worthy person that can,under my constant guidance
present him self as a cousin to the late Engineer Wright. I want you to
note that your citizenship does not matter;You do not have to be an
American.
The papers demanded For the normal procedure for the claiming of an
inheritance has been taken care of. You will be sole beneficiary to the
estate of Engineer Wright. All I need is for you to follow my instructions
closely because
I am experienced in inheritance matters here and I am on ground here to
advice you on every step.
I am writing you because I as a public servant (Staff of the bank) I cannot
operate a foreign account or have an account that is more than $1m(one million
united states America Dollars). I want to present you as the relative(NEXT
OF KIN) of the the late Engineer Wright so that you can be able to claim
them with the help of my attorney. This is simple, I will like you to provide
immediately your full names and address so that the Attorney will prepare
the necessary documents which will put you in place as the next of kin of
the Engr. Wright. The money will be moved out for us to share in the ratio
of 70% for me and 30% for you.There is no risk at all as all the paperwork
for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and this will guarantees
the successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply immediately via my email address Upon
your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents
that will help you understand the transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.(Buying of properties
like houses, hotels etc) Please do send me your private/mobile telephone
fax number so that we can have a smooth
communication.
Awaiting your urgent reply via email:yomibarnabas@netscape.net
Mr Yomi Barnabas.
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