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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: aban_ali2002@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:00:36 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONFIDENTIAL?=
MR. ABAN ALI
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
Courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored
onstrong desire to solicit for your assistance on this
mutualbeneficiary and risk free transaction with you, which
I hope you giveurgent attention. To
be precise,
I am MR. ABAN ALI Senior manager of ABSA BANK Limited
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA. In mydepartment, we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$ 27 Million(TWENTYSEVEN MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in an account that belongs
toone of our customers who died along with his entire
family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come overand claim his money
because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for
it as next of kin or relation to the deceased asindicated
in our banking procedures, but unfortunately to no
avail andnobody has come forward to claim the money.
Therefore, upon thisdiscovery that I and other two
officials in my department now decideto establish a
cordial business relationship with you,hence mycontacting
you. We want you to purportedly present your good self
asthe next of kin or relation of the deceased so that we
can
releasethefund (money)into your account for safety and
subsequent disbursementsince nobody is coming for it and
again we do not want the money to gointo the government
account as unclaimed bill .
The banking law andprocedures herein stipulates that any
accounts abandoned or dormantfor a period of some years is
subject to be closed and all moneycontained therein will be
forfeited to the government treasury account. Now itis
being speculated that the above sum will be transferred
into government treasury account as unclaimed fund on
or before May 2005.
The reason for you to present your good self as thenext of
kin is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer
was aforeigner.
Mode of Sharing After the successful completion
ofthetransfer is as follows, for the role you will be
expected to play inthe whole exercise, we have agreed to
give you Thirty (30%) of thetotal sum,and
10% has been set aside for the expenses we are going
toencounter by both parties in the process of this
transaction and the remaining 60% shall be for my
colleagues and I in support of theafore mentioned, you are
urged to reply this letter indicating yourreadiness and
interest to participate in the business.
After your reply, you will be advised on the next step
afterwards. I quite believe that you will protect our
interest by keeping this business top secret and
confidential. Your interest will be equally
protected,as we must maintain maximum confidentiality.
Trust
Count on your earliestreply.
Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR. ABAN ALI.
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