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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 Johnson George." <jgeorge100@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jgj@rediffmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:35:57 +0100
Subject: Urgently !!!!
Hello ,
Greetings from Cotonou,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is
not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to
transfer to an oversea account ($5,300.000.00 USD) Five Million
Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from a ECO BANK here
in COTONOU, REPUBLIC OF BENIN. I want to ask you, If you are not
capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to
set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an
empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business
trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me
down either now or in future.
I am Mr. Johnson George, presently promoted to Auditor General of
ECOBANK. During the course of our auditing last week, I discovered
a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1996 and since
1998 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through
some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and
if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.
The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crahsed
on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter leaving
nobody to claim the money. You shall read more news about the crash
on visiting this site:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp
No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that the account is a secret account.
The total amount involved is Five million Three Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars only [$5,300.000.00] and we wish to transfer
this money into a safe foreigners account abroad.
But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, but to a foreigner who has information about the account,
which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I am
revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business, you are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so
that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.
I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me
and key bank officials who are deeply involved with me in this
business. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to
any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance
from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the
total amount, 70% will be for us,while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL
AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards,
Johnson George.
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