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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: "Henry Okoye" <henryokoye@volcanomail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hokoye@accountant.com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:17:04 +0100
Subject: Re: Partnership
STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC.
53 OKPARA AVENUE ENUGU.
FROM MR.Henry okoye
TEL: +234 80 350 44461
Dear Sir,
Greetings to you,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to
treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a
big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that
people meet and become great friends and business
partners. My name is Mr.Henry okoye, the present
branch Manager of a bank here in NIGERIA. I write you
this proposal in good faith, believing that I can
trust you with the information I am about to reveal
to you. Like I said, I have a transaction that will
benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as
a foreigner.
I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head
office, but last December I was asked to take
position of a Manager of our branch in ENUGU who
passed on, so that was how I became the present
Manager and discovered a fortune.
As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total
sum of USD$35.000.000.00) THIRTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
that has not been operated on for the past 4 years. From my investigation, I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.air
lines.list/and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/peo
ple/mThompson.html
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of
account in my bank and no other person knows about
this account or any thing concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close
monitoring of the account since then and nobody has
come forward to ask about the money as next of kin to
the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no one is
aware of the account. I cannot directly take out this
money without the help of a foreigner and that is why
I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the
funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my
bank branch, I have the power to influence the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up
as the next of kin to the account, with the correct
information concerning the account, which I shall
give you.
I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the
next of kin to the account, so that my bank head
quarters will release the funds to you. There is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of law. find
in the attachment my work ID Card. This is just to proof to you that my proposal is genuine.
If you accept to work with me, I want you to state
how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so
that both parties will be satisfied. Contact me as
soon as you receive this message if you feel we can
work together, so we can go over the details.
Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.
I wait your urgent response on h_koye@yahoo.co.in .
You can as well contact me my phone number is
+234 80 350 44461
Regards,
MR HENRY OKOYE
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