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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: "BANK WORLD" <bankworld@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alexson64@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:32:26 +0000
Subject: New year business prospects - 1
Hello Friend
I am an accountant with a bank in Europe. There is a fixed deposit of £150,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Million Pounds Starling) made to this bank since 1994 which is ten years now and since then no claim or withdrawal have been made on that deposit.
Fortunately, I have been the person working the interest from the day of deposit to date. The interesting part of it is that the fixed deposit belongs to the one of Ex African Preseident who is now late, this means that the account may have been abandoned by the surviving family members or that they are not even aware of the existence of the deposit.
However, I just finished updating the interest of the deposit this month, and it has come up to the tune of 105,000,000.00 (One Hundred & Five Million Pounds Starling) at the 7% interest rate per annum. It is this interest that I am interested in because I know very well that the family will care less on what happens to the interest if they want to redeem the deposit, they will be interested on the main money, that is if they are able to clam it at all because all the money lodged into different banks here in Europe and United States are now being claimed by the Current government that is in power.
For confirmation pls vist this site..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3333557.stm
Meanwhile, my plan is to withdraw just some amount from the accumulated interest, which will not even affect the main fixed deposit. I will give you the details of procedure when I receive your reply and indication of partnership. Your reward and amount to withdraw will be our mutual agreement to avoid any misunderstanding.
We have nothing to lose, we only need courage to do this.
Please send your response to alexson64@yahoo.co.uk for safety of the transaction.
Sincerely yours,
Alex Anderson
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