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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: "Dr RICHARD NNEJI" <richardpaulnnejim3@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: richardnnejim7@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1990 07:18:28 +0000
Subject: MY REGARDS TO YOU
Dr. richard Nneji
Sapphire Financial group
Victoria island branch,
Lagos, nigeria.
Attn: md/ceo
I am Dr. richard Nneji, branch manager with Sapphire
Financial group,victoria island branch, lagos,
nigeria.
I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you
that should be handled with
Extreme confidentiality.
On january 6,1998 a foreign consultant and contractor
with the
Federal Housing authority
Andreas Schranner by name made a numbered time fixed
deposit for
twelve calendar months valued at us$38.6m (thirty
eight million, six
hundred united states dollars only) in my branch.
Upon maturity i sent a routine notification in
accordance with the
bank policy to his forwarding
Address but got no reply.
After a month we sent a reminder and finally we
discovered from his
contract employers Federal Housing authority that
Andreas Schranner
died from an aircrash in germany, for more
information,
please refer to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
On further investigation, we found out that he died
without making a
will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I
therefore made further investigations and discovered
that Andreas
Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relations
in all his
official documents including his bank deposit
paperwork in my bank
and most died in the crash.
This sum of us$38.6m has been carefully moved out of
my bank to a
financial and security company abroad for safekeeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and
according to the law of
my country, at the expiration of 7 years the money
will revert to the
ownership of the state (government) if nobody applies
to claim the
fund.
This prompted us to contact you. we want to front you
as the next of
kin of our late client thereby making you the legal
beneficiary of
the sum of $38.6 million u.s dollars that is presently
in a financial
and security company abroad.
I contacted you because it is against our code of
ethics to own and
operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be
needed to claim
the money in the financial and security company
abroad.
We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum
would be for
you if you agree to take part in this profitable
transaction,65% for
me while the remaining 10% would be used to pay back
the expenses
that may be incurred during the course of the
transaction by both
parties after the fund has been claimed and lodged in
your account.
In the event that you are genuinely interested in the
transaction,
Please reply immediately. The transaction is 100%
legal and totally
free of risks as all modalities has been perfected to
ensure the
hitch free success of the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information
via email as
soon as possible so that we can proceed and after
sending it you call
me.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Dr. richard Nneji
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