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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: law_duke@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:12:17 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTENTION=20PLEASE?=
FROM THE DESK OF DR.LAWRENCE DUKE
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF HONG KONG (B.O.HK)
KHONKOWLOONG KONG.
ATTENTION PLEASE.
I am the manager of Auditing and Accounting department of
BANK OF HONG KONG (B.O.HK) here in Kowloon-Hong Kong. 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. For
more information about the crash visit this
site:(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
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 Hong Kong 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. Trusting to
hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
DR. LAWRENCE DUKE
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF HONG KONG (B.O.HK)
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU SEND YOUR REPLY TO law_duke007@yahoo.com
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