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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 John Peter" <j_peter7@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: j_peter7@myway.com
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:30:14 -0800
Subject:
FROM THE DESK OF JOHN PETER
ECO BANK NIGERIA PLC.
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
PRIVATE CONFIDENTIAL
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of ECO BANK PLC,LAGOS,NIGERIA
I am writing following the impressive information about you through my search for for a reliable partner to assist me accomplish this once in a life time opportunity.
I got your email data via African Online Net Work.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20m US dollars ( Twenty million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november 16,1998 in a 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 cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the planecrash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I do not want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulatesthat if such money remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
20 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the
provision of a foreign account, 50 % would be for me .
There after I will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the
percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer ofthis fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer .
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.For further correspondence,please contact me via my confidential email address; j_peter7@myway.com </ym/Compose?To=j_peter7@myway.com>
Yours faithfully,
John Peter.
Bill and exchange manager,
ECO-Bank PLC.
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