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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: "Juan A Lopez" <juanlopez@masrawy.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: juanalopez@mail2world.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:37:32 +0100
Subject: Urgent attention
FROM THE DESK OF DON JUAN ANTONIO LOPEZ
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER ,
BANCO ATLANTICO. MADRID SPAIN
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of billing and exchange at the foreign remittance department of BANCO ATLANTICO here in Madrid Spain.
In my department. we discovered an abandoned sum of €35m euros (Thirty five
Million euros) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. Christian Eich from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in July 2000 in a
plane crash. For more informations about the crash you can visit this site:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and
laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that we the officials involved now decided to make this business proposal to you. To present your self as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. All the claim documents for the successfull transfer of this funds has been put in place. We have successfully withdrawn and deposited this funds with a security company based on when the next of kin of the deceased person will appear. Also, we have freezed his account. What we need from you is your acceptance to execute this transaction and to provide a competent bank account where this fund will be transferred to without any problem at the end. And upon the final approval of this funds, for you to come down to Spain for the signing of the final documents to enable the security company release the funds. we want to!
do this because we don't want this money to go into the Spanish treasury account as unclaimed funds.
The Spanish banking guidline stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the government treasury account as unclaimed funds. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer (Christian Eich) was a foreigner and a Spanish cannot stand as next of kin to the foreigner.
Therefore, if you accept to assist us in this transaction by providing the information i demanded, we have agreed that 35% of the total amount will be giving to you as your own share. 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the Business by both parties. And 55% will be for my partners and I and it will be invested in any lucrative business in your country.
As soon as this is done, I will personally resign from my work and join you immediatelly.
I want you to know that the trust leed upon you is based on mutual business understanding. And it´s a life time opportunity which i believe you will not allow it to go.
However, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased. By filling the application form which i will send to you in my subsqent mail that is if you have accepted to work with us. I will also explain more about the application form in my next mail. Meanwhile, you are required to send to me your direct telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication, your full name and address, the full bank details where you want this fund to be transferred to.Upon receipt of this details, I will send to you by fax or email the application form for claim which will enable you apply for payment of this fund.
On this note, I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements has been successfuly made as regards to this transfer.
Contact me as soon as you receive this mail. Even if you are not interested, please also let me know as to enable me look for another partner.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.send all correspondence by email juanalopez@mail2world.com for security reasons
Yours Faithfully,
DON JUAN ANTONIO LOPEZ
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