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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: johibeh@tiscali.co.uk
Reply-To: joibeh1@netscape.net
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:02:44 -0800
Subject: GET BACK TO ME
Intercontinental Bank Plc,
Head office,
Victoria Island-Lagos
From: Mr.Johnson Ibeh
Email: joibeh1@graffiti.net
My Dear,
I am the manager of Auditing and Accounting department OF NIGERIA INTERCONTINENTAL
BANK PLC here in Lagos. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum
of US$20.5M dollar(TWENTY MILION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers (MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER
from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in July 2000
in a 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 cannot release it unless
somebody applies as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go
into the bank's treasury as ''unclaimed bill''. The banking law and guideline
here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after fours years,
the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian citizen cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will
be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account by you, and
70% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you have to apply first to the
bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application
form that I will send to you when I hear from you, hence I will want you
to send to me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy and effective
communication and location wherein the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application form . Note that this transaction is hitch-free as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately
as soon as you receive this letter on this email address joibeh1@graffiti.net.
Trusting to hear from
you immediately.
Mr. Johnson Ibeh
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