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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: "obi joy" <gmcgson@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:09:02 +0100
Subject: CAN YOU DO IT?
DEAR BELOVED.
FROM 'ALHALI KOL OSON' UNION BANK OF NIGERIA.
I am a staff of (UNION BANK OF NIGERIA). I am writing following an
oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £10.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Ten million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his
wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this
site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list and
ttp://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail through
gmcgson@yahoo.com,Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth
release of these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in
details when I do receive your response.
Please in your response include your telephone number for easy communication
between us.
Best regards
Alhaji kol oson
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