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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: uguta@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:55:00 -0800
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY
FROM THE DESK OF:
{HON} MORGAN DIKKO
ECOBANK OF NIGERIA
MAITION DE ECOBANK,
2, WUSE ZONE ABUJA
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
malito:martins2004@myway.com
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Morgan Dikko. A staff of Ecobank plc,in the department of
bills and exchange at the foreign remittance Department, of Ecobank of Nigeria
plc.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$ 20.5m)
Twenty Million , Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollar only,
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family in November 2003 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 a next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately we learn that his supposed next of kin or relations
died along with him at the crash leaving nobody behind! for the
claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials in the department now decided to make business with you,
that is, to release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the decease since nobody is fronting for the money and we do not
want this fund to go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after six years the money will be transferred
into federal government account 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 an
indigene can not stand as a next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed
that 30% of this money will be for you as the foreign partner and
10% for expenses incurred during the cost of remittance.
Therefore to enable immediate transfer of the fund to you as
arranged,you should contact me with this ! e-mail address:
immediately for further briefing: In as:{ martins2004@myway.com } I look
forward to hearing from you soon.Include your phone and fax numbers when
repling.
Best regards.
Morgan Dikko,
Foreign Remittance Dept.
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