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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: "0Mark Johnson" <mark@generous-zz.com>
Reply-To: omark_johnson@nyc.com
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:21:11 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY
URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED
I am Mr.OMARK JOHNSON, The personal account officer to Mr. THOMAS
PERRY
a
very
rich gold merchant who owns a multi-national company. There is an
urgent
issue on ground that needs your urgent attention. Mr. THOMAS PERRY
died
with his entire family in an auto-crash on the 2nd of October 1999. He
has a
very big multi-national company in Nigeria where I served as a personal
accounting officer to him.
After his death, I observed with patience and notice that nobody has
come up
as the surviving relative or next of kin to Mr. THOMAS PERRY. Because
this
man was good to me when he was alive, I took it upon myself to find out
why
nobody has come up as his next of kin. Initially my research revealed
to me
that he has no surviving close relative.
There is a policy here in my country, which is if nobody comes up as
the
relation or next of kin to the deceased within a period of five years,
the
money in the deceased account would be forfeited to the Government with
immediate effect.
I then made more findings by going to the bank and requesting to know
the
names of the people Mr. THOMAS PERRY declared as the next of kin. The
bank
granted me my request and provided me with the list of Mr. THOMAS PERRY's
next of kins. Among this list was your name with a brief contact
information
about you. Since you are the only next of kin left whose status has not
yet
been confirmed, I then decided to send you these email to let you know
that
you are the only next of kin to Mr. THOMAS PERRY left.
The total money in his account is Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand
United
States Dollars (US$10,500,000.00). At this point, immediately you
receive
these email reply back to me so that i can give you the details on how
you
are to proceed further.
I await your urgent response. At this point in time, i will like you to
handle this issue with high degree of confidentiality for security and
safety reasons.
Best Regards,
OMARK JOHNSON.
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