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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: "WILLIAMS PRINCE" <williams_prince1@easylinks.org>
Reply-To: mmadu909@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 04:59:18 +0100
Subject: MY TIME OF NEED
Contact: Barr U. Mmadu & Associate chambers
Home address: 53 china ave,
Enugu state Nigeria.
Office address: 76/77 udi ST.
Private email: mmadu909@yahoo.co.in
Date: 7/10/04.
SUBJECT: MY TIME OF NEED
ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO
I write to notify you of my desire to establish
This urgent
Business that required trust and confidence.
I very sorry borthering you with my problem.
This is because of the urgency of this particular business.
Anyway I am Barrister U.Mmadu, a solicitor
At law and the
Personal attorney to late Mr.J.C.Ford, who was a
Foreign national who used to work with Shell Development Oil and Gas
Company in Nigeria as
Their financial controller, here in shall be
Referred
To as my client.
On the 21st day of April 2001, my
Client, his wife and their two children were
Involved
in a car accident along Sagbama express road,
Port-Harcourt, Nigeria.
Unfortunately all occupants of
that vehicle lost there lives. (MAY THEIR SOULS
REST IN PEACE)
Since then I have made several enquiries to
locate any of my client's extended relatives, and after these several
Attempts all
was proved unsuccessful. I decided to trace your email
address over the Internet for you and I to make a deal.
Ambitiously, I have contacted you to present you to
the Bank
as the bonafide and the rightful beneficiary of
this money left in the Bank by my client.
Particularly, the BANK where Mr.
J.C. Ford had an account valued at $17.5 million
Dollars has issued me a notice to provide the
Bonafide
Next of kin or have the account confiscated within
the
Next 21 bank working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
Relatives for over 3
Years now, I seek your consent to present you as
the
Bonafide next of kin to the deceased so that the
Proceeds of this account valued at 17.5Million
Dollars
will be paid to you and then you and I will
Share the
Money at the modality of 60% to me as the
originator
of the business and 35% to you as the beneficiary.
Then the remaining 5% will be use to settle all the
expenses both of us might incure.
It is 100% risk free because I as a legal practictionner
will protect our interest to make sure that we make a very
smooth transaction in order to have a successful conclussion.
All I required from you is your honest cooperation
to work according to
my directions and instruction.
If you are ok by this offer, and sure that you will
not betray my trust on you please let me know.
My promise to you is that you will not regret any
financial assistance you will
render to me during the official processes of this transaction.
As you are responding to my proposal,pls include the
following requirements which will be used to facilitate the
legal and official processes of approving your name as the next of kin
to late Mr.J.C.Ford.
1) Your full name and address.
2) Your private phone and fax numbers
3) Your full age and occupation.
Pls reply me via my private email address (mmadu909@yahoo.co.in)
Waiting for your earliest responds.
Regards,
Barrister .U. Mmadu
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