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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: "Ademola Lucas" <bankofthenorth@ademolalucas.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:14:14 +0000
Subject: MY GOOD FRIEND
MR ADEMOLA LUCAS
Bank Of The North,
Victoria Island Branch,
Lagos, Nigeria.
ATTN,
I am MR ADEMOLA LUCAS Branch Manager with Bank of the North Victoria Island
Branch Lagos Nigeria,I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.
On January 6,1999 a Foreign Oil Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. James Herbert by name made a
numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$38.6M
(Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder and finally wediscovered from his contract employers the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that Mr. James Herbert died from an
automobile accident.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Mr. James Herbert did not declare
any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$38.6M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Security
Company in Europe for safekeeping No one will ever come forward to claim it
and according to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 years the money will
revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund.
This prompted us to contact you.We will like to front you as the next of kin
of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
$38.6 million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Security Company in Europe.
I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and operate
foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in
the Security Company in Europe.,We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the
entire sum would be for you if you agree to take part in this profitable
transaction,70% for me and 2 of my colleagues while the remaining 5% would
be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of
the transaction by both parties after the fund has been claimed as the next
of kin.
In the event that you are genuinely interested in the transaction,there are
some information would be needed from you to commence transaction FULL
NAME,CONTACT ADDRESS,PHONE AND FAX NUMBER to commence operation.
The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities has been perfected to
ensure the hitch free success of the transaction.
I await your urgent response
THANKS FOR CO-OPERATION
MR ADEMOLA LUCAS
adebowalebello@yahoo.com
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