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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: edgar_workson@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:03:46 +0000
Subject: RE: (GET BACK)
Attention:
I am a member of staff of Century Deposit and Security Company here in the
United Kingdom.I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will
be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £5.5million British Pounds
Sterling (Five million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in a safe deposit
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.K. Thompson
an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife
and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website. <<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/>>
and <<http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html>> Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin
or relatves to come over and claim his money because the Security Company
cannot release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our deposit agreement/guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge
of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that
I and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don?t want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money
gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword
in this transaction. Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail whether
or not you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one
about it.
I am very careful on truncating my career should you mention this to someone
else. I hope you can be trusted in this regard. Please note that all necessary
arrangement and documentations for the smooth release of these funds to you
has been finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your
response. Please in your response include your telephone number and fax number
for a better communication between us.
Best regards,
Mr.Edgar Workson.
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