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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: anthony12@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:38:46 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HELLO?=
PRIVATE AND URGENT
From Barrister Anthony Smith
E-mail:anthonys_chamber@yahoo.co.uk
Bank of Scotland Mauritius.
Dear Friend,
PRIVATE AND URGENT
Please do not be offended if I have invaded your privacy. I am Mr. V. Price,
and I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money from
a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make anyone 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 urgency
of this transaction and you dont have to worry of spending any funds of
your own.
PROPOSITION.
I am the account officer to Mr. Salah Adam (deceased) one of our foreign
customers. While he banked with us, I oversaw his accounts and other official/financial
obligations as my office demanded being his accounts officer. Unfortunately,
he died along with his entire family in the plane crash of 31 October, 1999
on board the Egyptian Airline 990 alongside other passengers. Please consult
the website below for verification.
http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm
While he was alive, none of his family members was ever known to me other
than his immediate nuclear family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir. I
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim
as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Having made a very franatic and exhaustive search for any family member
that would lay claim to this fund, I decided to take my chance with you.
I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased
as I have all documentations including his certified Death Certificate that
will facilitate your stand as next of kin to him as he had a closing balance
of 5,500,000.00lbs (five million, five hundred thousand pounds sterling)
here in our Bank of Scotland Mauritius Branch. I also have secured from
the probate an order of mandamus to locate any member of deceased family
to become beneficiary of this fund.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following to my PRIVATE E-mail: ventprice@velocall.com
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internalre-adjustments and file
your name in form A2ag and other vital forms as next of kin which before
now was left blank by the deceased upon opening of the account six years
ago. Upon your reply, I will advice the way forward. I must assure you that
if you are serious and follow my lead religiously, then this funds will
be released to you within a seven-working-day period.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you, you can learn about Mauritius by clicking
the link bellow,
http://s2.emedia.com.my/Misc/Mauritius/about_html
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=MU
I await your urgent mail.
Regards,
Barrister Anthony Smith
+230-48036-991-552.
N.B
Definitely, a transaction of this magnititude needs funds to execute and
make it a reality and before, I contacted you, I have already made a feasibility
study on how much we would need to carryout this project and it is about
$35,000. Do not be alarmed, you are not going to spend any fund of yours
caused before i contacted you, I have already made an arrangement with an
investor in Canada, who is going to assist us with the funds needed for
us to complete the transaction. If you are interested, immediately, give
me your telephone/fax number and contact address for me to give to the investor
to contact you and send the funds needed for us to complete the transaction
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