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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: frank lewis <mrfrank_lewis4@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:12:59 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FRUITFUL PROPOSAL
Mr. Frank Lewis,
Johannesburg, South Africa,
PHONE NUMBER +27 732-687-389
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Frank Lewis, manager of bills/exchange at the
foreign remittance department of ABSA Bank Limited. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to
one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family, on November 1994, in a ghastly plane crash. Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because we
can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next
of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come forward
to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department
and I have decided to establish a cordial business
relationship with you, hence my contacting you. We want you
to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your
account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bills. The banking law and
guidelines here stipulates that any account abandoned or is
dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and all
money contained therein forfeited to the government
treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an unclaimed
fund on or before December 2005. The reason for requesting
you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by,
the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the
money into your account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and
I, for the role you will be expected to play in this deal,
we have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum and 5% for
the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties
at the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are
expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and
interest to participate in this business. After receiving
your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact
steps to take.
I expect your urgent response to to enable us to
conclude this transaction urgently without any hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly
confidential for security reasons.
Personal Regards,
Frank Lewis
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