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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: "Kwamen" <004idris@handbag.com>
Reply-To: 004idris@fastermail.com
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:59:51 -0700
Subject: AN APPEAL FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE
Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss:
RE: AN APPEAL FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE
I am contacting you based on the current Osmond Enquiry on behalf of Union
Bank Plc Nigeria. I got your contact through my search for a credible and
honest personality who would stand in as a next of kin to a deceased client
of Union Bank Plc and I am writing you independent of the Osmond Consultancy
Enquiry.
In the year April, 2001,a client, an oil consultant/contractor with the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, made a fixed deposit for twelve
calendar months, valued at USD$ 4.7 {Four Million, Seven Hundred Thousand
Dollars) in Union Bank PLc. For 3 years now, he has not come to reclaim
his deposited fund. a routine notification was sent to his forwarding address
but got no reply. After a month, a reminder was also sent and finally, it
was discovered from his contract employers, the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation
that he has died few months after the deposition was made.
As at the time he made the deposit, there was no submission of anybody?s
name as a next of kin, more over, on further investigation, it was found
out that he died without making a (WILL),as there was no mention of an
immediate family, all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless, because
there was no such submission.
As such he did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents,
including his bank deposit paper work in the bank. This sum of USD$4,700,000,00
is still sitting in the bank and the interest is rolled over with his
principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to
claim it I am place in the position to instruct Union Bank Plc to release
the deposited fund to you as the only closest surviving relation of the
client. Upon receipt of the deposit, I will split the money with you. That
is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release
the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 50/50. I would have gone ahead
to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight
line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. But on the other
hand, you with the same very name as the original depositor would easily
pass as the beneficiary with right to claim. I assure you that I could have
the deposit released to you within a few days. I have all the information
that would ensure success .We can fine-tune this based on our interactions.
I am aware of the consequences of this proposal and I have done all homework
as regards this
According to the banking policies, at the expiration of five years, the
money will be reverted to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody
applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like
you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin. I will give you all the
details if you assure me of your confidence.
There is no risk or failure involved in this transaction at all, as I have
made my final confirmation. The money will be paid to you and you shall
get a 50% of the total fund and the balance of 50% will be invested for
me under strict monitoring by you in a business of your choice.
At this stage I require absolute confidentiality, to avoid undue exposure
of this venture or a threat to my job. I hope that I can count on you. Waiting
for your anticipated positive response.
Yours faithfully,
kwamen Idris
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