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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: "Donell Nelson" <donellnelson2@team-auditor.com>
Reply-To: donellnelson@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:27:24 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS SUGGESTION,...from Donell Nelson.
Dear friend,
This mail will definitely be coming to you as a surprise, but I must crave
your indulgence to introduce myself as Mr. Donell Nelson, an audit staff at
the Union bank Plc. However I got your contact through the International web
directory.
Recently we discovered a Dormant Account with a huge Amount of Money Valued
US$30,000,000.00 (Thirty million U.S dollars only) that belongs to one of
our customer, late Mr. Andreas Schranner by name who died along with his
wife, Mrs. Maria, daughter and husband and grand children in plane crash on
31 July, 2000. Take a look on homepage below;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
He made this deposit of $30 million on 15th October 1999, for that reason
this money is dormant in his account because ever since he died, no one has
come up to claim the money.
The Financial/Banking law in my country stated that if such money remains
unclaimed for 6 years, it will go to the Bank treasury as an unclaimed bill.
It is only a foreigner like you that can stand as a next of kin and it is
upon this discovery that I decided to contact you to collaborate with you to
pull out this dormant fund. In order to avert this negative development, I
now seek your permission to stand in as next of kin to the deceased so that
the $30 million will be transferred into your account as the next of kin.
I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country
as civil servants, I will not be allowed to operate a foreign account and
that would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of
transfer since I am working as an audit officer at the same bank, this is
the actual reason why I required your urgent assistance to act as the next
of kin and at the same time, receive this $30 million in your account.
However, on a smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to
45% as gratification for your assistance to me, while 5% will be set aside
to take care of expenses such as telephone calls that may arise during the
time of transfer and the remaining 50% will be for me.
Bear in mind that this proposal is 100% risk free. Further Information will
be given to you as soon as I receive your positive response. I suggest you
get back to me as soon as possible stating your wish. My alternative web
address is: donellnelson@portugalmail.pt
Best Regards,
Mr. Donell Nelson
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