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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: stevemar@handbag.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:30:30 +0200
Subject: From Mr.Steven Mark.
From Mr.Steven Mark.
Dear Sir,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this by virtue
of its nature that is utterly confidential and secret. Though I know that
a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided
to contact you due to the fact that this transaction is urgent, as I will
rely on your ability in handling a transaction of this nature.
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Steven Mark,
I work with the Asba Bank SA as an account officer in the Treasury/Credit
Control Unit. I came to know you in private search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle this confidential transaction, which involve the transfer
of a huge sum of money into a foriegn account requiring maximum confidence.
THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSITION / TRANSACTION: A foreigner by name Andreas
Schranner , who is a real estate and property developer by profession does
some his banking transaction with us at Asba Bank and had a closing balance
as at the end of January 2002, which is worth Fifteen Million United States
Dollars .
I was his personal account officer and since he deposited this money with
us in the year 1999, We were instructed by my late client that the money
be kept and secured in a security and finance firm because it was less expensive
to keep and secure the funds in the security firm devoid of tax payments.
I am sad to inform you that Mr Andreas Schranner and his wife died in the
ill fated concorde flight AF4590 that crashed into Hotelisimmo on the 31st
of July 2000 in Paris-France . check this website below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Our bank now expects his Next of Kin to come forward as a sole beneficiary
to his assets with the bank, mean while, as is personal account officer valuable
efforts has being made by me for more than one year to get in touch with
any of my late client family or relatives without any success. It is because
of the percieved impossibility of being able to locate any of my late client
Next of Kin as his wife Maria Schranner and his daughter Eich Andreas perished
in the flight also. Based on this, I secretly seek advice from a fellow coleague
who has being in banking for about 14 years now about this issue of my late
client , he made me
understand that things like this do happen and at the end of the day the
chairman and board of directors of the bank will declare the funds as ''
Unclaimed '' and subsequently divert it for thier personal use. In order
to avert this negetive development, I now seek your permission to have you
stand as the Next of Kin to my late client, so that the funds will be released
and paid into your account as the beneficiary Next of Kin.
I have already secured from the probate, as soon as I recieve an acknowledgement
of your acceptance, I will furnish you with the necessary modalities of the
transaction. I assure you that this transcaction is 100% risk free, and as
soon as we succeed in getting this funds to your account, The money will
be shared on a 50-50 basis .
Please forward to me on acceptance of this proposal, your private telephone
and fax number including the country code and area codes, your complete names,and
private email address ( SteveMark962@netscape.net ) for effective communication
as the project will be completed within the next 14 working days.
Thanks.
Best Regards.
Steven Mark.
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