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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: elvischris@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:42:29 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTENTION=20NEEDED?=
Dearest ,
I do recognize the surprise this urgent but
confidential letter brings
to you,especially as it came from a stranger.
I am MRS FATIMA ABACHA, GROUP HEAD TREASURY,BILLS AND EXCHANGE, ECOZENITH
BANK PLC.WIFE TO THE SON OF FORMER NIGERIAS HEAD OF STATE, LATE GENERAL
SANI ABACHA
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5m (Ten million,
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer from your country , who died along side with
his entire familyin November 1997 in a plane crash. Since we got the information
of his death, we have been expecting his beneficiary to come over and claim
his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as
beneficiary to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide.
Since then I have made several enquiries to his
embassy to locate any of his extended relatives. But this has also proved
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
track his last name over the Int ernet, to locate any member of his family
hence I contacted
you.
I have contacted you to assist in securing this money
before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank. It's
therefore, upon
discovery that I decided to make business with you and
release the
money
to you as beneficiary or relation to the deceased for
safe keepingand
subsequent disbursement, since nobody is coming for it
and I don't want
this money go back into Federal Government's account
as unclaimed bill.
Note that it does not necessarily matter, whether you
are biologically
related to the deceased or not. The fact that your
name has something
to do with his, is an express ticket. As you may bear
with me, a
beneficiary maybe a parent, sister, brother, close
relative,
associate,friend
or even a well-wisher. So, whether you are related to
him or not is never a barrier to realizing the transaction. The banking
law and
guideline here stipulates that if such an account
remains dormant or non-operational after a period of four (4) years, the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
However, attempts has been made twice by the
Government Agency concerned to confiscate this account since the
expiration of thefour years if not for my intervention as the account supervisor
as Ihave always told them that the beneficiary has been in touch with us.The
request of a foreigner as beneficiary in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. This transaction
is aimed at investing in a blue chip company in your country or
any other country under a joint business partnership with you. But if you
wantcertain percentage of the deposit for your involvement, please do let
me know so that we negotiate on your share. Once the deposit is secured,
thereafter, I will visit your country for the investment thereof.
Please be honest to me. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of
the fund to you as arranged, you must apply first tothe bank as the
beneficiary to the diseased. Upon r eceipt of your
reply , I will send to you by fax the text of the application with the
name of the deceased and his country and other information about him.
Note that this transaction requires utmost
confidentiality. And I am assuring you that it is 100% risk free. So you
neednot be afraid.I expect a positive response from you soonest.My
private email address is (fati_abacha2001@yahoo.ca)
Best regards,
MRS FATIMA ABACHA
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