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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: "FAVOUR CHUKS" <favourchuks111@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: favourchuks111@fastermail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:37:32 -0700
Subject: urgent
Union Bank Plc
Nigeria
I am the Manager Bill and Exchange of the Foreign
Operations Department Union Bank Plc Lagos Nigeria. I
am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank
with account number: 142552004/wb/t who died in
November 1999 in a plane crash.
Since we got the information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim
his money because we cannot release unless somebody
applies for it as the next of Kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. And
since no one has come forward to claim the fund for
years now, we discovered/realized that that the fund (US$12.8m) the
account no: 142552004/wb/t has been abandoned. As the deceased is
from your country it will enable us proceed the release of the money
to you. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other
senior officials in the department now decided to make business with
you and release the money to you as the Next of Kin or relation of
the deceased for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to go back into
the Federal Government Account as Unclaimed Bill.
This is because the banking Law and Guidelines here
stipulated that if such money remains unclaimed after
five years the money would be transferred into the
Banking Treasury as unclaimed fund.
It is in view of this, I got your contact through the
foreign trade mission after I was convinced in my mind
that you/your name could be used as the next of kin to
the deceased. The request of a foreigner as Next of
Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer is a foreigner and a Nigeria cannot stand
as a Next of Kin to a foreigner. I agreed that US$4.5M
of this money/fund will be for you for your
involvement, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars will be
donated to charity while the rest will be for me and
my partners. So upon the conclusion of this
transaction and your receipt of this fund, I and two
other of my colleagues will visit your country for the
disbursement.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer/release of
the fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to
the Bank as a relation or Next of Kin of the deceased.
Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you by fax
Text of the Application and the next steps to take. I
will also 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
as been made for the transfer/release of the fund to
you. Note: This transaction is confidential/risks
free. As soon as you receive this email, you should
contact me at once through the above stated
email address.
Thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately,
Yours Sincerely,
MR FAVOUR CHUKS
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