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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: "raymond coker" <raymondcoker@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: raymondcokerbank@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:12:26 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
FIDELITY BANK
FIDELITY BANK PLC
Wer'e are fidelity, we keep our word
Place 2, Kofo Abayomi
Street Victoria lsland,
Lagos-Nigeria
Dear Sir/Madam,
PRIVATE
AND CONFIDENTIAL.
First i must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and secret. Though i know that
a transaction of this maguitude will make anyone apprehensive and even worried.
But i am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. we have
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
let me start by introducing myself properly to you. l am Mr. Raymond Coker,
chief credit/ Account Officer of FIDELITY BANK OF PLC, LAGOS Nigeria. i got
your contacts through an associate who works with Nigeria lnstitute of lnternational
Affairs (NIIA).who assured me of your realiably, discreetness and ability
to handle this confidential transaction.which involves transferring of unclaimed
fund to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
The PROPOSITION
A French citizen, late engr. John Edward, an oil merchant and construction
engineer with the Nigeria National petroleum corporation NNPC), untill his
death last five years ago in china air bust (A310-300) flight Kg 30, Deposited
with us at FIDELITY BANK PLC in lagos, US$ 30.5M,(THIRTY Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars Only), The Bank now expects a next of kin
as beneficiary. serious effortes are being made by FIDELITY BANK PLC to get
intouch with any of Edward's family or relatives but to no avail.
There is a perceived posibility of not being able to locate any of late
Engr. John Edward next of kin ( he had no wife or children known to us.)
A close friend of Mr. Edward said he was a gay or homosexual. The management
under the influence of our chairman an members of the Board of Directors,
have made arrangement for the fund to be declared "Unclaimed" and subsequently
transfer into their personal account.
ln order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues
and i, now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to Late
John Edward, so that the fund US$ 30.5Million will be released and paid
to your account as beneficiary or next of kin. All documents and proofs to
enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. we have secured from
the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.
we have agreed to give you 30% of the fund for your involvement; 10% wil
be for expenses; then 60% will be ours. We are assuring you that this business
is 100% risk free, and need only maturity from all the parties involved.
As soon as we receive acknowledgement of your acceptance of this our mutual
business proposal, we would furnish you with the necessary disbursement ration
to suite both parties without any conflict.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do take advantage of the trust we
have bestowed on you, get intouch with me immediately.
Best Regards,
Mr.Raymond Coker.
___________________________________________________________
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