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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: "levi furger" <levifurger@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:52:01 +0200
Subject: PLEASE CALL
FROM: MR.LEVI FURGER
333 BOTHA ABEL HILLBROW
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL..+27-73-290-8407
Dear Sir,
Let me start first by introducing myself. I am MR.LEVI FURGER a bank
manager with a commercial bank here in South Africa. I came to know about
you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle a
confidential
Portfolio that is under my management. I got your contact
address from an associate working with the trade center here in Pretoria
and I decided to propose to you this business in strict confidence.
The Portfolio:
A German Mr. Wolfgang Schiniter, 66 years of age and a prosperous farmer had
in
our Firm a sum of Thirty five million United States Dollars
(U.S.$35million). He
named his wife Mrs. Helga Schiniter as the next of
kin. Unfortunately they were both killed in the recent air crash involving
Concord AF4590 in Gonesse, France. Efforts had been made by the management
of my
Firm through the German embassy in Pretoria to contact any of the children
of
Mr. Wolfgang Schiniter but to no avail.
According to the embassy, the couple had no offspring. The Firm is still
unrelenting in its bit to contact any of the relatives to claim this money
or
the fund will go to the government.
In order to avoid this development my colleagues and I now seek you
permission
to have you stand as a distant relative to Mr. Wolfgang Schiniter so that
the
funds would be released to you.
All the documents and proofs to enable you to get these funds will be
carefully
worked out.
The Firm has secured from the court an order of mandamus to locate any of
the
deceased relatives, and I am assuring you that this is 100% risk free. If
this
proposal is acceptable to you please do contact me and let me know if you
are
willing. I am offering you a 20% commission. Give me your consent and I will
go
ahead with the paperwork.
thanks,
MR LEVI
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