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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: Ben Clayson <benclayson@zwallet.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 23:24:03 +0000
Subject: Real opportunity
Mr.Ben clayson.
Valiant Privatbank AG
Postfach
3001 Bern, Switzerland
Email: benclayson@ureach.com
Dear Sir/Madam
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum
of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you
due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500,000.00
(Seven million five hundred thousand united states
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family. Since
his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward
to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot
release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your
permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the
deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us
for the funds (US$7,500,000.00) to be released in your
favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of
madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour
by furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letter of claim
to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals
in your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be
compensating you with a million dollars on final
conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while
the rest shall be for us for investment purposes. If
this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue
advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent response.
Regards,
Mr. Ben clayson.
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