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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: "Mr Usman Ahmed" <usman_80@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: usman_01@zwallet.com
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:40:46 -0700
Subject: I await your response urgently.
Mr Usman Ahmed
Diamond Bank
Ilupeju,
Lagos
Nigeria
ATTENTION:
I am Mr Usman Ahmed, Branch Manager Diamond Bank.
I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with
extreme confidentiality.
On January 12,1997 a Consultant and contractor
with the British Water Corporation Mr. Kim Sangogk
by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for
twelve calendar months valued at US$20.9M(Twenty Million,
Nine Hundred thousand United States Dollars Only)
in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in
accordance with the Bank policy to his forwarding
address but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers British Water Corporation
that Mr. Kim Sangogk died in the Korean Air
Flight {801}, which crashed in Guam, on August
6,1997.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
On further investigation, we found out that he
died without making a Will and all attempts to
trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore
made further investigations and discovered that
Mr.Kim Sangogk did not declare any next of
kin or relations in all his official documents
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$20.9M has been carefully moved out
of my bank to a Financial and Security Company
for safekeeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and
according to the Law of my country, at the
expiration of 7 years the money will revert to
the ownership of the British Government, if
nobody applies to claim the fund.
We decided to contact you to assit me receive his
money for safe keeping and investments on his
behalf as everything will be taken over by the
government as provided in section 129 sub
63(N), British Banking Edit of 1961.
This prompted us to contact you.We want to front
you as the next of kin of our late client thereby
making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
$20.9 million U.S Dollars that is presently in a
Financial and Security Company .
I contacted you because it is against the civil
service code of ethics to own and operate foreign
accounts and your assistance would be needed to
claim the money in the Financial and Security
Company
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of
risks as all modalities has been perfected to
ensure the hitch free success of the
transaction.
I have also decided that you will generously be
entitled to 30% of the total amount. Upon my receipt
of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me
of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and
transfer all the rights of ownership of this
fund to your name to facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your
country.
You have nothing to worry about, as I will be there
to assist you in anyway necessary with all proper
documentation.
If you are interested, send all possible suggestions
as soon as possible so that we can proceed and after
sending it you call/phone me.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Usman Ahmed
___________________________________________________________
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