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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: "bruno conty" <bruno.conty1@handbag.com>
Reply-To: brunoconty3@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:18:37 -0500
Subject: FROM BRUNO CONTY
Attn:
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat
it serious. I am Mr.Bruno Conty, a banker
with the United Bank of Africa. I am the
Accounts officer to late Mr. Michael J.Brown the
African Area Director of SIL International, who
unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways
Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000.
You will read more stories about the crash on visiting
this website,
news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html
and also in this website, where Brown's company
talked about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall
as well find the pictures of Brown and his wife
there. Mr. Brown was from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Since the death of Brown, I as his accounts officer
in the bank, have made several enquiries to locate his
only surviving relation, without any success. I came
across your name and contact, on the course of my
personal searching for Brown's relations, so I
decided to contact you for this project.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit
account by Michael, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by my bank. The board of my
bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months from now
and no next of kin shown up for the claim, the funds
will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since
I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating
Michael's relatives for sometime now, I seek your
consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the
deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the
proceed of this deposit valued at $USD24.6 Million
Dollars can be released to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who
has all related information/documents to the bank
account. I am in charge of this matter in my bank,
because I am his accounts officer. Your application
will be directed to my department for verification and
approval. Everything is under my control.
I shall provide you all the information and copy of
the certificate of deposit issued to Michael when he
deposited the funds. I shall also involve a good
attorney who shall represent you in all the
appropriate offices for the claim. Please, find in the
attachment my work ID Card. This is just to proof to
you that my proposal is genuine. I also have all
necessary information we need for the claim and once
the money is transferred to you, I shall destroy all
the documents used for the claim and leave no traces.
After everything, you shall have 40% of the total
sum,while 60% for me.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this business successful. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Michael
was a very good man and it is not wise to allow his
hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy
directors of my bank.
Further details awaits your response by email
Best Regards
MR.BRUNO CONTY
Banker.
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