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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 PASCAL IBE" <pascal_ibe5@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: pascal_ibe20008@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 08:09:22 -0800
Subject: MR PASCAL IBE
Dear Prospective Partner,
I am Mr. Pascal Ibe the auditor of United Bank for
Africa Plc (U.B.A).
There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and
since 1990 nobody has operated on this account again.
After going through some old files in the records I
discovered that if I do not remit this money out
urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Jack Hamilton a
foreigner and the
manager of Granite Minning Nig, a chemical engineer by
profession and he died since 1990. No other person
knows about this account or anything concerning it,
the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proves to me as well that his company
does not know anything about this account and the
amount involved is (U.S. $26,000,000.00). I want to
transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad
but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to any local bank here but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is
in U.S dollars and the former owner of the account is
Mr. Jack Hamilton and he was a foreigner too.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs
to effect the legal approvals and onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance
from foreign payment department, With assurance that
This money will intact pending my physical arrival in
your country. At the conclusion of this business, you
will be given 30% out of the total amount, 60% will be
for me, while 10% will be for expenses, both parties
might have incurred during the process of this
transaction. I Look forward to your earliest reply
through my private e-mail address or Fax:
+234-1-7594153
Yours Truly,
Mr. Pascal Ibe.
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