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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: jimmy willi <willi_info2000@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:52:26 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT
The Director ;
Audit and Accounts Unit,
Foreign Remittance Dept.
Ecobank For Africa,
Lomé-Togo ; West Africa.
willi_info2000@zwallet.com
PRIVATE AND URGENT
Dear Friend ,
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased customer's account who On the 25th of July 2000, the deceased, his wife and their only son died in the Air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise as you may view it in this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Although I know that a transaction of this magnitude might make anyone apprehensive,I would like to assure you that I am sending you this mail with the best of my intensions.
Since then ,I and my colleges have been trying to get this funds out of the bank, the sum of US$13,450,000.00 (Thirteen Million,Four Hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to our foreign customers Mr.Kurt Kahle ,who died along with his entire family in the above accident stated above.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come
forward to lay claims to this money as the their. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as I may see to it to back you up by the necessary documents require for the claiming of the funds(US$13,450,000.00) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate court, an order of madamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.
These requirements will enable me send you a draft of an application letter of claim which you will fill and submit to the appropriate departments here in this bank ,for necessary approvals form in your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 3 Million Dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us.
Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes in your country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response to this email through my private contact at : willi_info2000@zwallet.com
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Williams Jimmy
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