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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: "DR.COLLINS SMITH" <collins44smith@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: collinssmith2004@yahoo.co.in
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:08:51 -0600
Subject: URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL
Request for Business Relationship
To whom it may concern
My name is Dr.collins smith, the manager credit of
union trust international bank of london. I am writing in
respect of foreign customer of my bank. who died in a
plane crash with other passengers abroad.Since the
death
of this customer, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved
abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of
us$15.5m
(Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) which has been with my bank for a very long
time.
On this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be
used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be
the
next of kin. In view of this I got your contact
through my
country‘s foreign trade mission after I was
convinced by providence that your name could be used
as
the next of kin.The request of the foreigner as a next
of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the
customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand
as
the next of kin to a foreigner.I agreed that 30% of
this
money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect
of
providing a new bank account or we can use your old
accountinformation, while the rest will be for me,
thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement
as
I am almost due for retirement. Therefore, to
facilitate
the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as a
relation
to the deceased indicating your private telephone
number,
and fax number for easy communication and location
where
the money will be remitted. Upon the receipt of your
reply, I will send you by fax or e-mail the
application
and the next step to take.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
business
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any
fear
as the whole required arrangement has been made for
the
transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as
you
receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you.
Your respectfully,
Dr. collins smith.
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