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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: henry_m@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:26:45 +0100
Subject: URGENT CONTACT NEEDED
Dear Sir/ma,
It is my humble pleasure to write this letter irrespective of the fact
that you do not know me. However, I came to know of you in my private
search for a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a
confidential transaction of this nature in respect to our investment plans
in
real estate or any viable venture in your country. 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.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you.I am Mr Henry Macpepple,Accountant
general of FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK Nig Plc, Lagos.
A foreigner, Late MORALES JUAN, a Civil Engineer/Contractor with the
federal Government of Nigeria ,untill his death three years ago in a
ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC
,Lagos, and
had a closing balance of USD$20M (Twenty Million,United States Dollars)
which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his
available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a
discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage
here in
Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts made by the FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK to get in
touch with
any of late MORALES JUAN's next of kin (he had no known wife and
children) has been unsuccessful. The management under the influence of our
chairman and board of directors, are making
arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be
subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition which will
further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development , myself and some of my
trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you
stand as late MORALES JUAN's next of kin so that the fund (USD$20M),
would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the
beneficiary next of kin through our overseas corresponding bank.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been
carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involment.Your
share would be 20% of the total amount. While the rest would be for
myself and my colleagues for purchase of properties and investment in your
country through you/your company.
If this proposal is OK by you, then kindly get to me immediately via my
e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,fax and
e-mail, so I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Best Regards.
MR,Henry Macpepple.
Accountant general,
FLEET INTERNATIONAL BANK Nig. Plc Lagos.
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