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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: "Kent Andrew" <k_andrw20@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: kent_andrew200@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:38:20 +0100
Subject: Reply Me! Confidential
From The Desk Of :Mr Kent Andrew.
Head of Customer Services.
Ahli United Bank.
U.K.
Dear Friend,
Complements of the season, my name is Mr.Kent Andrew, an official of the
above stated bank in U.K. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer
of my bank (Mr.Kaplanli Suayip) a Turkish , who died in Iraq during the
war with account number AFB1022002-109 .
Since the demise of Mr.Kaplanli Suayip, l personally have watched with keen
interest as his account officer to see the next of kin, but all has proved
abortive as no one has come to claim his fund of £8,230,00000 (Eight Million,Two
Hundred and thirty thousand pounds Sterling) which has been with our bank
for a long time and has accumulated some interest.Going through his bank
account documents, l found out that the space to fill a next of Kin was left
blank.
On this note i decided to seek you, your name shall be used as the next of
kin, as no one will come up to put claim as the next of kin to this fund
and the banking law does not permit such money to stay unclaimed for too
long. If no body comes forward as the next of kin soon, the bank will transfer
the fund into its treasury for its own use.
I am convinced that your name could be used as the next of kin to this claim.The
request for a foreigner as next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the
deceased was a foreigner, and l cannot use anybody known to me to stand as
the next of kin to the deceased.
For your assistance and as a partner in this transaction, you will have 35%
of the fund as your share, while l will have 65% of the fund. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is risk free and that
you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement has
been perfected for transfer.Endeavour to keep my communication with you confidential.
l look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Kent Andrew.
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