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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: "john clarkson" <jclarkson001@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:36:40 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL
FROM JOHN CLARKSON,
KEEP AS CONFIDENTIAL
I am a staff of bank in Africa. I will give you the name of my bank and
other important information if I receive a positive reply from you. For
security reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to you now until I am
sure of your cooperation. I work in the operations dept
where I serve as account officer to numerous customers. One of the customers
whom I worked as his account officer was a wealthy diamond merchant from
neighboring Sierra Leone. He lost his family in the war. He was lucky to
escape alive and came to this country with his wealth intact. Unfortunately
he died last year.Because this man was good to me when he was alive, I took
it uponmyself to travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate
any of his
close relations . On reaching there I discovered that his only surviving
uncle died a few months back. I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in
the bank knew I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any
official report of my findings in South Africa.Now there are two things I
could do with regards to the dead mans money. First, as his accounts
officer, I could formally notify the bank
authorities that the man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case the
money would be forfeited to the government after some time. As a matter of
act this is the proper thing I am supposed to do.
Another thing I can do is to arrange for someone else, a foreigner, to act
as the next of kin of the late man so that he will claim the money. This is
the option that I can do to help anybody and myself since the money actually
is public fund due to the fact that my friend was a closelly to the late
brutal military president that looted government treasury and that is why I
have chosen to do it. I want you to be my partner. All you would have to do
is act as the next of kin of the dead man and the whole money in the account
will be transferred to your account. As the accounts officer to the late
man, I have all the necessary documents that you will require to claim the
money in the account.
The total money in the account is USD17 million. Your share will be 30%
which is USD5,100,000. My own share will be 69%, which is USD11,730,000. We
shall keep 1% which is USD170,000 for expenses. Reach me immediately by mail
so that I can give you further details.Also provide me your direct
tel/fax
to reach you.
Yours truly,
JOHN CLARKSON.
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