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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: frankik@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:29:00 +0100
Subject: urgent investment request.
FROM: BARRISTER FRANKS IKPEAMA
FB. IKPEAMA & CO;CHAMBERS.
COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
E-Mail: frank_ikpeama@yahoo.co.uk,
fb.law.chambers@lawyer.com,
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister Frank Ikpeama the Personal Attorney to late Mr Arthur M.Barnett,
who was an Importer of Textiles and Automobiles here in Cotonou Benin Republic
for past 19yrs. But unfortunately my client and his family died in the ghostly
car accident along Midombo-Togo express way on 3rd October 2002.
And it came as a shocking news to me when one of the bank My client is dealing
with, called me as his personal attorney to invite his relatives to come
and claim the money left in his bank account with them. I tried all i can
to trace his family,but all my efforts proved arbortive,then from January
this year 2004 till now, the bank has been presurising me to look for his
family because they realise that a lot of swindlers have been forwarding
application to claim the money as his next of kin. But it happen that after
much verification,they will find out that those people were rogues, because
they cannot provide a legal evidence to prove that they were his relative.
Moreover i have decided to use you as his next of kin to claim the money
for my own personal use as it happen that his relatives were not available
up till now,and i have all his documented memo in my file which will back
you up before the bank as his next of kin. I will still obtain a genuine
legal evidence which i will do with your name to satisfy that you are the
rightful next of kin to the deceased.
The amount involved is (US$8,500,000.00) Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars, therefore i will like for you to send to me the following:
1.Your full name and address.
2.Your phone and fax numbers.
3.Your bank account informations.
Once I receive these informations I will submit it to the concerned bank
here to enable them process the approval transfer of the fund into your
bank account.
And be rest assured that there is no risk involved in this transfer because
i will make sure that all necessary documents needed to transfer this fund
t your account is geninue and legal secured to back you up in claiming the
fund.
Finally, you have to maintain the high secret and confidentiality this transfer
demands as the bank does not know that i am using you to claim the money
on my own. And at the cmpletion of this transfer to your account,i will
compersate you with 20% of the total money for your help and assistance,and
i will like to invest my own part of the money in your country base on your
advice. Therefore forward the informations i requested frm you immediately.
Please reply to this Email address: frank_ikpeama@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks and god bless you.
BARR. FRANK IKPEAMA ESQ.
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