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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Mr. Peter Zak" <peterzak@swissmail.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: peterzak@caramail.com
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:54:55 +0200
Subject: Hello
MR PETER ZAK
Switzerland
Sir
PRIVATE AND URGENT
I am contacting you on business transfer of a hugh sum of money from a
deceased
account, 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 decided to contact you due to the urgency of
this
transaction.
PROPOSITION:
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$18,500,000 Eighteen million five
hundred
thousand united states dollars in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his
death
none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for
this money as the heir We cannot release the fund from his account
unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated
in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery we now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next
of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked
out
by us for the funds to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's
next
of kin It may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any
of the
deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following:
Beneficiary name and address
Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer
can
be made. We shall be
compensating you with a million dollars on final conclusion of this
project,
while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while the rest shall
be
for us for investment purposes.
If this proposal is acceptable by you do not take undue advantage of
the
trust we have bestowed on you.
I await your urgent mail.
Regards.
Peter Zak.
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