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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: "Dr, Patrick Donlin." <info1@seark.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: info@seark.com
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:18:03 -0700
Subject: Urgent Assistance
From The Desk Of,
Dr,Patrick Donlin.
105 Bright STR.,
N/W LONDON,
ENGLAND.
E-MAIL:info@seark.com
I am writing following information I received from
one of my friends who run an information technology
consultancy firm. Although, I did not tell him the
details of the business I will want to do. In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of
US$32.5million (Thirty-Two million, five hundred
thousand United States Dollars) in an account
belonging to one of our foreign customers who died
alongside with his entire family in November 1997
in a plane crash. Since I got the information
about his death, I have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot
be claimed unless somebody applies as his next of kin as
indicated in our banking guide.
Unfortunately, I discovered that all his supposed
next of kin died with him over the plane crash
inccident.For over two years, I decided to look for the
necessary papers relating to the deposit in order to
make business out of it hence the deposit was made in
my branch. Now that all papers are ready, I am asking
for your assistant to release the money to you as
next of kin or relation to the deceased for safe
keeping and subsequent disbursement, hence nobody showed up
for it and I dont want this money to go back into
Federal Government account as unclaimed bill as soon
as the next audit is completed.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that
such money if remain unclaim after two years of
maturity, it will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed effect.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a England, cannot stand as a next of
kin to a foreigner.
I am ready to negotiate the mode
of sharing with you. Thereafter I will visit your
country for the disbursement/investing of my share
according to the percentages we agreed upon. To
enable the immediate transfer of the fund, you must
apply first to the bank as next of kin to the deceased.
Note this transaction requires utmost
confidentiality.
And I am assuring you that itis 100% risk free so you
need not be afraid.
I expect a positive response from you soonest.
Best regards,
Dr, Patrick Donlin.
Group head, Banking Operation
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