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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: "Mr.Camara Balim" <camarabox01@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: camarabox02@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:55:54 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE and URGENT.
FROM: MR.CAMARA BALIM
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
CREDIT NATIONAL DU SENEGAL
Rue Portin X Blaize
rue x 33 medina dakar Senegal
EMAIL: camarabox@yahoo.ca
DATE: 5th NOVEMBER 2004
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
First I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction, this is by
virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential
and top
secret. 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. There is no
doubt that trust conceptually is a conundrum which
leads itself to deferring interpretation, we have
decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction.
I am the manager, bills and exchange at the foreign
remittance
department of the CREDIT NATIONAL DU SENEGAL,
Senegal I came to know you in my private search for a
reliable and
reputable person to handle this Confidential
Transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum
of money to a
foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$17,320,000.00
(seventeen million
three hundred and twenty thousand united
states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family of a
wife and two children in november 1998 in a plane
crash. Since his
death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come
forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We
cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies
for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our
banking guidelines, unfortunately, no family member
nor
relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund.
Upon this discovery,
we now seek your permission to have you stand
as next of kin to the deceased so that the funds
(seventeen million
three hundred and twenty thousand united states
dollars) can be released and paid into your account as
the
beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will be
returned to
treasury as unclaimed funds which will subsequently be
donated to the
trust fund for arms and ammunition to further
enhance the course of war in the World. All documents
to enable you
receive this funds will be carefully worked out by
us as we already have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to
locate any of deceased beneficiaries, and more
so we are assuring you that this business is safe.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the
following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letters of
claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in
your
favour before the transfer can be made. We have agreed
that our ratio
of sharing will be as stated thus; On final
conclusion of this project, 65% of this surplus shall
be for us, while
30% shall be for you and the remaining 5% shall
be used to compensate either party for any expenses
incurred. Your
share stays while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes.
Whilst this anormalities may well raise your doubts in
view of the fact
that you are a person not physically known to us,
I advice that a healthy degree of caution be exercised
before
conclusions are reached by your goodself. If this
proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have
bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail. Please
reply to EMAIL for easy
communication.......camarabox@yahoo.ca
Best Regards,
Mr.Camara Balim.
camarabox@yahoo.ca
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