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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: philipzm1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:22:11 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY?=
NedBank Plc
Johannesburg South Africa
mrphilipzm01@yahoo.com
Dear Attn
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. Phillip Zuma the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Exchange/Remittance
Department of NedBank, Johannesburg South Africa. In my department, we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$12,524,000.00 (Twelve Million, Five Hundred and Twenty
Four Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan
American Airline plane crash.
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 Son 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$12.524 Million) into your account for safety and
subsequent disbursements.
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.
Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into Government
Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before end of April 2005. 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.
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. Trust to hear from you on your earliest
response through my private Email: mrphilipzm01@yahoo.com
Yours truly,
Mr. Phillip Zuma
NedBank Plc
Johannesburg South Africa
E-mail: mrphilipzm01@yahoo.com
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