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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: "freddy iweh" <eferenabo@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: frdiweh@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:22:34 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
Dear Friend,
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.We have
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have
been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am frediweh,
A Manager at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you
in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money
to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
A foreigner, Late Engineer William Adams, an oil Merchant /contractor with
the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly
air crash, banked with us here at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos,
and had a closing balance of USD$22.2M (Twenty-Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed
by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to
a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage
here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by this bank to get in touch with
any of late Engr. William Adams's next of kin (he had no known wife and children),
but all our efforts proof abortive. Right now, the management and the Board
of directors of this bank has made an arrangement for the fund to be declared
"UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms
and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and
the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, myself
and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission
to have you stand as late Engr.WILLIAMS ADAMS's next of kin so that this
fund (USD$22.2M) would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank
account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully
worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while
the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country.
If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my e-mail address furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this
transaction.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Regards.
Dr. frediweh
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