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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: "Davis Yoga Paul" <davispaul@sanook.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: davispaul@jumpy.it
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 03:21:05 -0800
Subject: BANK
Dear friend,
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
My name is Davis Yoga Paul, I am the credit manager in a
bank here in the West Africa. I am contacting you of a
business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased
account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything has been well taken care off,
and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.To ease
your apprehension, I got your contact from the British
chambers of commerce and industry, foreign trade division.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh
who died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st
October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website
below which was published by CNN.WEBSITE.
<http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html>
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make
claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in
the same accident(May his soul rest in peace). 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.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you
stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by a lawyer for
the funds Twenty-Eight million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States dollars (US$28,500,000.00) in a domiciliary
account to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary‘s next of kin. Because after four years
the money will be called back to the bank treasury as
unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors
of the bank. so it is on this note i decided to seek for
whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary
to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share
this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the
probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message
in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing
me with the following information if you are interested.
1. A Beneficiary name: In order for me to prepare the
PAPER WORK for transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Details of your contact address.
3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers - For our personal
contact.
I shall be compensating you with 25% of the total sum on
final conclusion of this project for your assistance, as I
have also thought of dolling out 5% to charity organisation
from your locality based on your recommendation and another
5% for professional services while the balance 65% shall be
for me for investment purposes in your country as I cannot
bring back this cash to my country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to
contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you by informing you of this
transaction from my bank as I will advise you to kindly
desist from responding at all if you do NOT intend to
render any assistance.
Endeavour to respond via my confidential email address:
davispaul@walla.com
Thanks and best regards,
Davis Yoga Paul
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