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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 Usman Ahmed" <usman_01@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: usman_ahmed_nig@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:27:08 -0800
Subject: Reply urgently..
Mr Usman Ahmed
Diamond Bank Plc
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos, Nigeria.
TEL: 234-802-361-5512
E-mail: usman_ahmed_nig@yahoo.co.uk
ATTENTION:
I am Mr Usman Ahmed, Branch Manager Diamond Bank
Plc, ILupeju Branch,Lagos, Nigeria.
I have an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.
On January 12,1997 a Foreign Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian Water Corporation Mr. Kim Sangogk by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months
valued at US$20.9M(Twenty Million, Nine Hundred thousand United States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers Nigerian Water Corporation that Mr. Kim Sangogk died in the Korean Air Flight {801}, which crashed in Guam, on August 6,1997.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.l ist.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr.Kim Sangogk did not declare any next of
kin or relations in all his official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$20.9M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial and Security Company for safekeeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to the Law of my country, at the expiration of 7 years the money will revert to the ownership of the State (Government) if
nobody applies to claim the fund.
We decided to contact you to assit me receive his money for safe keeping and investments on his behalf as everything will be taken over by the government as provided in section 129 sub
63(N), Nigerian Banking Edit of 1961.
This prompted us to contact you.We want to front you as the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $20.9 million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security Company .
I contacted you because it is against the civil service code of ethics to own and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in the Financial and Security Company
In the event that you are genuinely interested in the transaction, the following information would be needed from you to expedite action.
1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entails constant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via my private email (usman_ahmed_nig@yahoo.co.uk )as soon as possible so that we can proceed and after sending it you call/phone me.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Mr Usman Ahmed
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