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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: "Jeffrey Muha" <jeffmuha10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jeffmuha@accountant.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:59:20 +0000
Subject: Letter from Mr Jeff
3b Camelston Close,
Jorhannesburg,
South Africa.
Dear Sir,
My name is Mr Jeffrey Muha, I am the operational
manager in account management section in charge of
credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks
here in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of my bank who perished with his
whole families on 25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH
[ Flight AF459]with the whole passengers aboard.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1998 by
this great late INDUSTRIALIST who died without a
written or oral WILL attached to the account. Since
his death, I personally has watched with keen interest
to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as
no one has come to claim his funds and no other person
knows about this account or anything concerning it,
the account has no other beneficiary and until his
death he was the manager of his company.
The total amount involved is $26,000,000.00 USD
[Twenty Six million United States Dollar ]. We wish to
start the first transfer with $6,000,000.00[Six
million] and open successful transaction without any
disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.
I have secretly discussed this matter with the general
manager of the bank who I must involve in order to
have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to
any foreign bank account which you are going to
nominate. On this note, I decided to seek for a
reliable foreigner who will act as the foreign
beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing
his/her bank account where the fund will be
transferred for immediate investment on any viable
project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.
The banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than six years without claim hence the money
will be recalled to the government treasury as
unclaimed after this long period of dormancy. In view
of this I got your contact through my personal search
to see if you can assist by providing your safe bank
account for the transfer or find a reliable person
who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or
her personal account.
At the conclusion of the transfer 65% of the fund will
be for me, I will give you 20% of the total transfer
sum, 10% for charity both in Africa and in your
country while the remaining 5% will be set aside to
settle expenses both parties might incure during the
transfer process.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a
detailed information about the transaction. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this business is
100% risk and trouble free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you
apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund
from the deceased. You should also include your
private fax and phone numbers for easy and safe
communication.
Yours truly,
Mr Jeffrey
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