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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: "DR DAVID COLE" <drdavidcole1@universal.pt> (may be fake)
Reply-To: drdavidcole@universal.pt
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2060 23:33:58 +0100
Subject: HELLO:
SIR,
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its 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. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,as we have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature.Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. Iam DR DAVID COLE the manager with the BARCLAYS BANK LONDON.
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 Huge sumof Money to a Foreig Account requiring Maximum Confidence.THE PROPOSITION:A Foreigner an Australia,Late Engr. GEORGE WILSON(Snr.) an Oil Merchant with the UNITED KINGDOM, until his death months ago in Air Bus (A310-300)Flight KQ431,Banked with us at BARCLAYS Bank LONDON and had a closing balance as at the end of September, 2000 worth #45,000,000(fourty five million POUNDS),
The bank now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the BARCLAYS BANK to get in touch with any of the WILSON family or relatives but to no success.It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr. GEORGE WILSON(Snr.)' s next kin (He had no wife or children that is know to us)The Management under the influence of our Chairman and Members of the Board of Directors, that arrange has been made for the fund to be declared "Unclaimed" .
In order to avert this negative development some of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to Late Engr. GEORGE WILSON (Snr.) so that the fund #45 million pounds will be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get his fund will be carefully worked out.
We have secure from the probate, an order of madamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring you that this business is 100% Risk Free involvement.Your share stays while the rest be for myself and my colleagues forinvestment purpose.
According to agreement within both parties.As soon as we receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual busines proposal, we would furnish you with the necessry modalities and disbursement ratio to suite both parties with out any conflict. While replying furnish me with your private fax and phone numbers for easy communication.If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the trust we have best owed in you.here is my telephone number.+447040111468
Best regards,
DR david cole
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