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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: "Barr. Thomas Woodman" <twoodman41@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: twoodman56@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:33:02 -0700
Subject: Attend to this urgently.
Woodman Chambers
RoHampstead Town Hall Centre,
213 Haverstock Hill,
London NW3 4QP,
London
Tel: +44-700-594-7343, +44-7005-963-221
Fax: +44-871-661-8214
Email: woodmanchambers@woodmanchambers.cjb.net
Hello,
Greetings!
I am Barr. Thomas Woodman, an attorney, solicitor and notary public based in London, Uk with the designated
address as stated above.
I am compelled to contact you due to an urgent need for your attention. I have a German client by name Andreas Schranner, who was among the victims of the Air France concord plane (flight AF4590), which crash into Hotelissimo. Details could be seen through this website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
On one of our business trips, he made a numbered time deposit of 26.5 million euros (Twenty Six million, five hundred thousand euros) in a security company which I endorsed as his personal attorney. Ever since the urgly inccident took place in the year 2000, the fund has been lying falow in the treasury of the security company, which they have on several occassions reminded me of.
Now, I have tried all I could as his personal attorney to locate any close relative of the family, but to no avail. My reasons for contacting you on this issue is because as a fellow citizen, I owe him every respect to intimate anyone whom can channel his resources into a resourceful venture. I will suggest you claim the money on his behalf and invest it in a viable and lucrative business of your choice and probably build a motherless babies home or orphanage homes or even a company in his name as a remembrance. Andreas was a prominent German property magnate and should be remembered for his committments.
To this effect, all I need from you is the following to enable me instruct the security company, to release the fund to you as the affirmed next of kin to Mr. Andreas Schranner.
1. Your full name
2. Your residential and postal address
3. Telephone, mobile and fax numbers
4. A valid form of Identification such as,
International Passport, Driver's license or National
ID card.
On confirmation of this, I will forward an instruction to the security company to alter the enteries in your favor and thus release the fund to you.
Documents to this regard, would be forwarded to you as soon as I could confirm your response.
Thanks
Barr. Thomas Woodman
Attorney of Law.
Personal email: twoodman56@yahoo.co.uk
twoodman56@lawyer.com
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