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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: achike ndeli <drndili2000@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:04:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Imperative
Attn:
Before I introduce myself, I wish of inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat
it serious. I am Dr. Achike Ndeli, a banker of the
STANDARD TRUST BANK (STB)I am the Accounts
officer of Engineer Robert Chapman, a national of
your Country, who was until his death, a contractor and
Crude Oil merchant in in my country Nigeria.
Robert Chapman, his wife and their children were
involved in the Kenya airline plane crash on the 1st of
Feb. 2000.Since then I as his accounts officer in the
bank, have made several enquiries to your Embassy to
locate any of Robert Chapman extended
relatives/available next of kin,without any success.
I came across your name and contact, on the course of
my personal searching for Robert Chapmans relations,
so I decided to contact you for this project.I am
contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing
the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by
Robert Chapman, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by my bank. The board of my
bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months from now
and no next of kin shown up for the claim, the funds
will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since
I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating
Robert Chapman relatives for sometime now, I seek your
consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the
deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the
proceed of this deposit valued at USd$35 Million
Dollars can be released to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who
has all related information/documents to the bank
account. I am in charge of this matter in my bank,because I am his
accounts officer. Your applicationwill be directed to my department for
verification and approval. Everything is under my
control. I shall provide you all the information and copy of
the certificate of deposit issued to Robert Chapman
when he deposited the funds. I shall also introduce
you to an attorney who shall represent you in all the
appropriate offices for the claim. This is just to
proof to you that my proposal is genuine. I also have all necessary
information we need for the claim and once the money
is transferred to you, I shall destroy all the
documents used for the claim and leave no traces.
After everything, you shall have 30% of the total
sum,while 65% for me and 5% will be for the expenses
both parties might have incure during the process of
transfering the fund from my bank to any designated
account of your choice. All requires is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this business successful. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Robert
Chapman was a very good man and it is not wise to
allow his hard earned wealth to be declared
unserviceable by the greedy directors of my bank.
Further details awaits your response by email.
PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards
Dr. Achike Ndeli,
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