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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: "Mr. Richard Kpokrikpo" <richard0@financialcompany.org>
Reply-To: richard54@mighty.co.za
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:01:55 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
Dear friend,
I am soliciting your confidence in this business; this is because of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though, I know that a
business of this sort will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that this transaction is safe.
I am Mr. Richard Kpokrikpo , a Credit Officer with Inland Bank of Nigeria.
For the cause of this
transaction, I am working in collaboration with my bank manager, regarding
the large deposit of a
national of your country Mr. Ailing Lori who was a ship Merchant and
maintained a bogus account with my bank here. My cordial relationship with
him afforded me to be the account supervisor.
I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person
to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of his
abandoned huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
confidence.
I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.Ever
since Mr. Ailing Lori traveled, he has not made any contact with me, the
attorney or any body that we know since April 2001. Valuable efforts have
been made by the attorney to get in touch with him or relatives but to no
success. The assumption that Mr. Ailing must have been dead is confirmed by
the attorney on his inability to follow up all pressing transactions then,
which all of them have been terminated.
I have contacted you or any person you know that is capable to work with me
as a next of kin irrespective of same surname or not. This is in the light
of a government financial regulation order, to freeze any account containing
huge sums of money that has been dormant for a less than the period of time
we are talking about. The bank has made arrangement for the fund to be
declared unclaimed and subsequently be donated to the government trust
fund.To forestall a total loss, the attorney has agreed with me to put the
modalities I am proposing to you now in place, to manage the fund and bring
it to safe point until we are able to trace or decide further what to do.
I now seek your permission to have you stand as the next of kin so that the
fund $8.2M (Eight Million point two US Dollars) will be released and paid
into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin. All documents and proves
to enable get this fund will be carefully worked out.
I found it more convenient to commence on the transaction since I have all
information to influence
all procedures to this effect both from the bank and from the attorney's
assistance. We are assuring you that your Involvement in this business is
100% risk free. Moreover this arrangement will be possible under the
mandatory power of probate claims to be issued by the attorney, who is
standing by us in this transaction to see what we can keep out of the lot
that would have been confiscated and wasted by the government.
You shall retain a percentage that would be agreed between us while the rest
will be in our care for
investment purposes.As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of
this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I would furnish you with the
necessary modalities and
disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict including every
other detail you may wish to know.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you. Please endeavor to send your telephone and
fax numbers so that i can reach you. On receiving your responses shall
forward other details on what to do, to finalize all arrangements for a
hitch free transaction. Personal email : ricgard54@yahoo.com
Regards,
Mr. Richard Kpokrikpo
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