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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: christopher williams <christwill04@zwallet.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:27:26 +0000
Subject: URGENT CONSULTING
FROM THE DESK OF MR.CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
BILL AND EXCHANGE CONTROL MANAGER,
SOCIETE GENERALE BANK(SGBCI)
COTE D'IVOIRE.
DEAR FRIEND,
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise,I got your contact address from the internet while I was searching for somebody that has similar name with one of my best friend.I am the manager of bill and exchange SOCIETE GENERALE BANK at foreign remittance department.There is a business I would want you to champion for me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ($21.500.000 U.S)twenty one million five hundred thousands US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family on 25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] with the whole passengers aboard.The name of the deceased man was(MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,Germany).
N.B.In other for you to believe me honestly,go through this website below for your confirmation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
You have to understand that i come acrossed this huge amount of money when i was arranging the departmental customers file to submit to the bank management for the annual audit of the year.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over but we did not see anybody before we decided to deposited this money in a TRUST FINANCE INSTITUTE IN EUROPE which I can give you their contact information if you are ready to claim the money.All his supposed next of kin's or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you. The request of a foreigner in this business is because of our position in this bank that we cannot operate any foreign account, that is the reason why we seek for your assistance to contact the TRUST FINANCE INSTITUTE IN EUROPE FOR THE CLAIMING.
We agree that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60% would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you, you are to contact the TRUST FINANCE INSTITUTE IN EUROPE. All modalities of this transaction have been carefully worked out and once started will not take more than fourteen(14) working days, with your full
support. this transaction is 100% risk free.it involve no any implication and no any precaution there after. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on this private email address:Christowill@hotmail.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Christopher Williams
Bill and exchange Dept.(SGBCI)
West Africa.
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