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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: "Silver" <bar_gsgs@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: bar_gsgs@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:57:59 +0000
Subject: THANKS AND REPLY ASAP.
Barrister Godwin Silver
56 Rue Boulevard Djankasse,
B.P.50214. Lome -Togo.
E-mail address
Dear Beloved,
As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through
the business directory at chamber of commerce and Industry here in Lome -Togo,
where I was seaching for a good reliable contact which I will entrust this
business oppurtunity into his control. I was elated when I saw your address
and I picked a keen interest with confidence to solicit for your help in
executing this oppurtunity.
However, I was moved to contact you base on the present situation of this
oppurtunity which I may say that it is God given time offer.There was this
foreigner who lived here in Lome -Togo long ago called Mr Uwe Hoffmann,(
a German) and it happen that the man registered to me as his private personal
attorney.Unfortunately the man died with his entire family in an auto crash
here in Lome -Togo on 30th Apri l, 2000.
Owing to the death of this man, his bank called on me for his balance with
the bank as his attorney since January 2001, to invite his relatives to come
and claim the money. I tried all I could to trace his family but all my efforts
proved abortive, then from January last year 2004 till now the bank has been
presurising me to look for his family because they realise that a lot of
swindlers have been forwarding application to claim the money as his next
of kin but
it happen that after much verification they will find out that those people
were rogues because they cannot provide a enough evidence to prove that they
were his relative.
However, I have decided to use you as his next of kin to claim the money
for our own personal use as it happen that his relatives were not available
up till now and I have all his documented memo in my file which will back
you up before the bank as his next of kin. I will still obtain a genuine
legal backing with your name which will place you in the position of the
bonafide "Next of kin" to the deceased.
Furthermore, the amount involved is ($21.000,000.00) Twenty One Million United
State Dollars. If my proposal interest you, then you will have to furnish
me with your full name and address which I will use to secure the legal documents.
And as soon as I received your address, I will form an application which
will be submitted to the deceased bank as his next of kin.
After due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the
bank where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designated bank
account. Be rest assured that there is no risk involved as I have perfected
and made the neccessary arrangements to back you up in claiming the fund.
Finally, you have to maintain the high secrecy this business demands as the
bank does not know that I am using you to claim the money. I will compensate
you with 25% of the total money for your help and assistance. I will invest
my own part of the money in your country base on your advice. And 10% is
mapped out for expences and tax that might be paid to your country on remittance
of the fund to your account.
You can now forward your address and your full name and I will furnish you
with more details as soon asyou reply this mail.
Thanks as I await your reply.
Best Regards,
Barr. Godwin Silver
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