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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: "william awonuga" <william_awonuga@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: william_awonuga@uymail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:52:32 +0100
Subject: compliments of the season
william_awonuga@uymail.com <mailto:william_awonuga@uymail.com>
Dear Sir,
I am making this contact hoping that you will be willing
and capable of handling this proposal. I am Mr. William
Awonuga, an accounts officer with a private firm here in
Nigeria. My company handles consultancy Seismographic and
Catering jobs for oil companies including Texaco, Shell and
United African Companies (UAC) producer of Fast Food.
The owner of this company is Miss. Arvelo Lori Doryce, who
lived and did business in Nigeria for over thirty years
before her untimely death in the Kenyan Airbus off the
coast of Abidjan while coming back from Dubai (UAE) in the
year 2000. After her death, we the staff of her company
made efforts to trace her family without success because
unfortunately she was not married. The embassy was contacted
to trace them but to no avail. The insurance company that
Kenyan company contacted to pay compensation to the victims
had the same problem so they had to pay the compensation to
our company.
As the accounts officer of this company, I was opportuned to
have helped in her financial transaction with her bank. At
the time of her demise, she had an excess of Fourteen
Million Dollars (US$14.6M) in her personal deposit with
the African Development Bank Group (ADBG) the African
Development Bank Group has written several times as the
expiring date is just at hands on this issue but I told
them to wait that the next of kin of Miss. Arvelo Lori Doryce
is overseas and will contact them.
Presently, our company is about to fold up because the money
paid by Kenyan airlines has been exhausted in paying
salaries and other expenses. Please, now I want you to
assist me by presenting yourself as the next of kin of Miss.
Arvelo Lori Doryce so that the bank will pay the money in
your favour into any account which you will provide.
As soon as the money gets into your account, I will come
over to your country for sharing and to invest my part in
any viable business with your assistance. The mode of
sharing will be 25% for you, 70% for me and 5% for expenses
and tax. If you are interested and can handle this
transaction, contact me immediately through my above email.
Yours Sincerely,
William Awonuga
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