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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: jamesub@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:08:08 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETING=20FROM=20=28DR=20JAMES=29?=
Hello,
My name is Dr. James Uba, the manager credit and foreign bills of Broad
Bank of Nigeria Limited [BBN LTD]. I am writing in respect of foreign customer
of my bank with account number 14-255-2004/bbng/t who died in a plane crash
(Ethiopian airline 961) with other passengers abroad.
Since the death of this customer, I personally have watched with keen interest
to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to
claim his funds of us$15.5m (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which has been with my bank for a very long time. On this
note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as the next of kin as
no one has come up to be the next of kin.
In view of this I got your contact through my country's foreign trade mission
after I was convinced by providence that your name could be used as the
next of kin. The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian
cannot stand as the next of kin to a foreigner.
I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in
respect of providing a new bank account or we can use your old accountinformation,
while the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement as I am almost due for retirement.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to your account
as arranged, i will apply on your behalve to the bank authority as a relation
to the deceased indicating your private telephone number, and fax number
for easy communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon
the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or e-mail the application
and the next step to take.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement
has been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon
as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you.
Your respectfully,
Dr. James Uba
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