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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: "Dr.Hassan W.Maher." <dr_hassanmaher@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dr_hassanm2005@yahoo.com.mx
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:11:55 +0400
Subject: Dr.Hassan W.Maher.
From The Desk of Dr.Hassan W.Maher
The Manager Of Record / Debt Recovery Department.
Union National Bank, (U.N.B Building) Abu-Dhabi Main office
United Arab Emirates.
Middle East Asia.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Compliment of the season on a very good day. I am Dr.Hassan W.Maher the Manager of Record / Debt recovery Department in Union National bank (U.N.B). I got your contact information from a yahoo tourist search.
When I was searching for a foreign partner to assist me in carrying out this project and I have this confidence in you that you are capable of handling a project like this.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of twelve million, eight hundred thousand United States dollars (USD 12.8M) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family on (Monday 31St July 2000) in a plane crash.
Since the death of this deceased customer, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation/business partner to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
But is unfortunately that all our efforts to find his next of kin is of no avail and now the management of our bank are planning to transfer the fund in the bank treasury as unclaimed fund since no body has ever apply for this claim.
Please take a look on this site for more details regarding the plane crash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Therefore upon this discovery that I and one of my partner in my department now decided to make this deal proposal to you and release the fund to you as the next of kin or business partner to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and no local indigenes here can stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We have agreed that 30% commission of the total money will be given to you for the work well done, 10% has also been set aside for expenses incurred from both side during the transaction and the remaining 60% will be for me and my colleague. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as we have arranged and have done all the necessary home work to enable the smooth transfer of this fund.
Firstly I will direct you on how to apply for the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased customer and I will back you up with all the vital documents that the bank might demand from you as the rightful beneficiary and I shall release to you the whole details regarding to the deceased customer.
Meanwhile, kindly send to me your complete contact details along-side with your direct phone and fax numbers for effective communication.
Then I will secure the next of kin application form which you will fill and return back to the bank, also I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk free involvement hence we have done every thing possible for the smooth transfer of the fund into your designated bank account. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about.
Expecting your urgent response.
Best Regards,
Dr.Hassan W.Maher.
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