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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: bernetstevens@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:29:56 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=2CPLEASE=20REPLY=20ASAP=2E?=
Mr. Joseph Kruger.
45 springfeild van tonder street
Johannesburg, Guateng 2196
South Africa
E-mail:- josephkruger11@fastermail.com
Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire
to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free transaction
with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise, I am Mr
Joseph Kruger. the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Exchange/Remittance
Department of NedBank South Africa.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,000,000.00 (TenMillion
United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers
who died along with his entire family aboard Alaska Airline flight number
261, on 31st of January, 2000. You can read more about Mr. Morris Thompson
and his family's death by clicking on this web:http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
or http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of Kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless
somebody applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has
come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which
is daugther died as well).
Therefore, upon this discovery I and other two officials in my department
now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence
my contacting you. We want you to purportedly present your good self as
the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that we can prepare documentations
and release the funds (US$10 Million) into your account for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and again we do not want the
funds to go into the Governments account as "Unclaimed Bill".
The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned
or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all
money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury Account.
The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in occasioned
by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.
Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as follows,
for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, we have
agreed to give you twenty five (25%) of the total sum, and 5% has been set
aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the process
of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall be for my colleagues and
I. In support of the forementioned, you are urged to reply this letter indicating
your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After you reply,
you will be advised on the next step forward.
I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected
in order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Hope to hear from
you soon as I count on your earliest response.
Yours truly,
Mr. Joseph Kruger.
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