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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: felix_bamidele@tiscali.co.uk
Reply-To: felix_bamidele@lycos.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:15:43 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND-URGENT REPLY NEEDED
From MR. FELIX BAMIDELE, [UBN].
ATT: PRESIDENT/CEO,
Dear sir,
Compliments of the season, firstly, 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 end of the day. I have decided to contact you due to urgency
of this transaction, as I have reliably been informed of your discreteness
and ability in transaction of this nature.
Let me first start by introducing myself to you. I am MR. FELIX BAMIDELE
with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. I came to know of you in my private
search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential/beneficial
transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account requiring maximum confidence.
A foreigner, Late Engr.Han Guan, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, until his death 2 years ago in ghastly air crash,
banked with us here at Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. Lagos, and had a closing
balance as at the end of April 2002 worth US$15.5M (FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) which the Bank now expects a next
of kin to claim as a beneficiary, valuable efforts are being made by the
Union Bank to get in touch with any of the Late Guan's Family or Relatives
but there has been no success.
It is because of the possibility of not being able to locate any of the
Late Engr. Han Guan's next of kin ( he had no wife nor children that is
known to us) that the Management under the influence of our Chairman and
a member of board of Directors, ELDER Kalu U.Kalu, that arrangement has
being made for the fund to be declared ?UNCLAIMABLE? and subsequently be
donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunitions to boost the security
of Nigeria and further enhance the course of war in Africa and the World
in general.
In order to avert this negative development, I now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next kin to Late Engr.Guan so that the Fund US$15.5M
would be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary?s next-of-kin.
All document and proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked
out, at this juncture, your moral and financial support will be required
as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) shall be employed. I have secured
from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the Late Engr. Han
Guan's wills, therefore you are 100% risk free involvement.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do make undue advantage of the trust
I have bestowed on you and your Company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my e-mail address as indicated above. I shall furnish you with more
details upon receipt of your acceptance. In your reply, please furnish me
with your most confidential Telephone, Fax numbers and your exclusive Bank
Account particulars so that I can use these information to apply for release
and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
MR.FELIX BAMIDELE.
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