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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: "Keita Diop." <eng_keitadiop02@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:07:04 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal.
Attn: Director,
Dear,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to
you, to transfer to your overseas account, sum
of($8,123.000.00 USD) eight million one hundred and
twenty three thousand United States Dollars) from one
of the Prime Banks here in Dakar-Senegal, I urgently
want to know soonest If you are capable to handle and
acomodate this magnitude of funds untill i resign and come
over to join you for an investment in your country, tell me so that i can quietly look for another
reliable and honest individual that would be capable
and fit enough to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this funds, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this funds, as long as you will remain honest
to me till we actualise this interest believing that
you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr.Eng Keita Diop the Auditor General of one of
the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal west Africa
during the course of our auditing, I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in our bank
since 1982 and till date no body has operated on this
account again after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account
died long ago in a plane crash along with his family
without leaving a[Heir/Will] hence the funds is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Khalifa T.Ibrahim a foreigner before his death,
he was a management consultant and he died since 1992. No other person
knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his sudden death
he was a management consultant.
Since I hardly know any foreigner, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner to stand and apply as his next of
kin because this money can not be approved to a local
person here as his next of kin without valid
international foreign passport, but can only be
approved to any foreigner with valid international
passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because
the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the
a/c is a foreigner too, and the money can only be
approved into a foreign account.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine
because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information
of this account, which I will give to you upon your
possitive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never!never!!never!!! let me down.
With my influence and my position in the bank the bank
official can transfer this money to any foreigner's
reliable account that you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending on my physical
arrival in your country for sharing.
The bank official Will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place
and to build confidence you can reply me through my private e-mail address
:keitadiop@maktoob.com: for the security and safety of this business
as you know that this business is confidential.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
30% of the total amount,65% will be for me, while 5%
will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transferring.
Please ensure that you include personal phone numbers to
reach you for direct talks on this issue as soon as possible.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours truly,
Eng.Keita Diop.
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