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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: "MR, ADD MAIL," <addmail@inMail24.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: add_mail@walla.com
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:38:49 +0200
Subject: PLSE I'M ADD MAIL,
My Dear Friend,
Before I introduced myself, I will ask you to please
read carefully what I have written, I know fully well
that a lot of funny stuff are running around on the
internet, but I assure you that I can back up
everything I have written with veritable proof, I
urge you to treat this mail
I am MR Add Mail, an IT and computing contract staff
of a Bank here in Scotland, UK. During the course of
our general audit I came across an account opened in
our Bank in 1995 and since 2002 this account has not
been operated. After going through the account’s file
I discovered that the owner of this account, Mr SALEEM
AHMED MOHAMMED, was dead. He was an Iraqi citizen and
the manager of a petrol chemical company here in
Scotland.
I did some further investigations and
discovered that Mr MOHAMMED died in Falujah Northern
Iraq in 2003 supporting the barbaric regime of Saddam
Hussein. I further discovered that Mr MOHAMMED was a
bachelor and did not make any will, evidently he
slipped out of Scotland on the pretence of going on
holiday only to take up arms against the coalition
forces.
I also discovered that Mr MOHAMMED did not leave any
information about next of kin in his account’s file. I
have thought long and hard over my discovery, the
options were simple, ignore the money and the bank
will transfer the money into treasury account as
unclaimed fund, because the banking law and guideline
here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed
after three years, the money will be transferred into
treasury account as unclaimed fund or take advantage
of it and better my life and that of the people
around me.I have made up my mind and it is my
intention to have this fund transferred out of
Scotland, I can easily facilitate this as long as it
is a transfer out of Scotland.
Infact I could have done this deal alone, but
because of my position in this bank and it would
eventually raise an eyebrow on my side during the time
of transfer, because I work in this Bank. This is the
actual reason why it will require a second party or
fellow who will forward claims as the administrator
of the estate with affidavit of trust of oath to the
bank and also present a foreign account where he will
need the money to be transferred into on his request
as it may be after due verification and clarification
by the correspondent branch of the Bank, where the
whole money will be remitted from to your own Bank
account.
The total amount involve is £15,000,000.00, FIFTEEN
MILLION POUNDS ONLY. I am contacting you and giving
you first choice, I want to transfer this money into
a safe foreign account. As it may interest you to
know, I got your impressive information through an
international consultant here in Scotland when I was
searching for a good and reliable contact to do the
business.
I was elated the time I saw your email
address to propose the business to you. I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money
cannot be released to a citizen of Scotland, but to a
foreigner who has information about the account, which
I shall give to you upon your positive response,
because the late owner of the account is a foreigner.
What I propose is a partnership, on my side there
are two of us, I and the Chief Accountant.We will take
care of all transfer needs and documents from our
end,your role is to,
provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money. The only
criteria is that it is not in Scotland. Due to new
fiscal laws we shall do a partial release of the funds
into the account in order not to raise suspicion. It
is your choice where the fund will be remitted.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that
you will never let me down in this business, you are
the first and the only person that I am contacting,
for this business.
I need your strong assurance that
you will never let me down. Please, you have been
advised to treat this transaction as top secret as I
am still in the bank and intend to retire from the
bank after I conclude this deal with you. I want to
ask you, if you are not capable to quietly let me
know, so that I will look for a reliable and honest
person like you. Once the money is paid into your
account all documents relating to this transaction
will be destroyed and due to my knowledge of the IT
programmes in the bank, I will wipe the files clean
without trace. I guarantee that this transaction will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you. I will use my position and influence in
the bank to obtain all the legal approvals for onward
transfer of this money to your account.
The directives and needed informations will be relayed to
you as soon as you indicate your interest and
willingness to assist me and also benefit yourself to
this great business opportunity.
I propose a three way share of five million pounds
each between me, the accountant and yourself, I will
advise that you do not go on a wild spending spree
initially as it may raise eyebrows, the accountant
will arrange documents making you the administrator of
the estate, all we will need is your name and country
You may google my name if you,
I will be monitoring the whole situation here in
this bank until you confirm the money in your account
and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent
sharing of the fund according to the sharing formula
previously indicated. Let me know what you feel ASAP
and if you need further proof or have any questions
let me know. I am awaiting your urgent reply via my email:
[add_mail@walla.com ) for a verbal and detailed
explanation of this transaction to
Regards,
ADD MAIL,
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