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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. Anthony Rice" <rice_anthony7@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 06:09:42 -0800
Subject: URGENT
I am Mr. Anthony Rice manager of bills/exchange
at the
foreign remittance department of continental Trust
bank p.l.c.
my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that
belonged to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family, on November 1994, in a
ghastly plane crash. Since we got information about
his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to
come over and claim his money because we can not
release it unless somebody applied for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come
forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my
department and I have decided to establish a cordial
business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of
kin through your relation with the deceased, so that
the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bills. The banking law
and guidelines here stipulates that any account
abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is
deemed closed and all money contained therein
forfeited to the government treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an
unclaimed fund . when nobody come forward to lay
claims. The reason for requesting you to present
yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by, the fact
that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we
have access to his detailed bio data which you will
hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of
kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the
money into your account, shall be 75% to my colleagues
and I, for the role you will be expected to play in
this deal, we have agreed to give you 15% of the total
sum and 10% for the expenses we are going to encounter
by the two parties at the course of this transaction.
Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate
in this business. After receiving your reply, you will
be
communicated to with the exact steps to take.
I expect your urgent response. Please treat this business proposal as strictly
confidential for security reasons considering my
official position in CONTINENTAL TRUST BANK P.L.C.
Personal Regards,
Anthony Rice
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