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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: "MUSTAPHER WAHEED" <habibbankplc_cro2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mustapher_waheed@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:39:25 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Friend
This proposal is to you if you can assist me in all sincerity.Time is
against.I work in a bank in Africa. I will give you the name of my bank
and other
important information if I receive a positive reply from you. For
security
reasons I cannot disclose my full identity to you now until I am sure
of your
cooperation. I work in the operations dept where I serve as account
officer to
numerous customers. One of the customers whom I worked as his account
officer
has this secret about the source of his funds and confides in me to
help him.I will brief you once i am sure about you ok.
Because this man was good to me, I took it upon myself to
travel to his country last month, to see if I could locate any of his
close
relations . I want you to keep this strictly confidential, his name is
Vincent Arap Moi of Kenya. For more information you can visit these
website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3338023.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3025878.stm%
I sponsored this trip on my own and nobody in the bank knew
I was undertaking the journey so I did not present any official report
of my
findings in Nigeria.
Now there are two things I could do with regards to the dead mans
money. First,
as his son's accounts officer, I could formally notify the bank
authorities that the
man is dead and has no next of kin. In this case the money would be
forfeited
to the government after some time. As a matter of fact this is the
proper thing
I am supposed to do.
Another thing I can do is to arrange for someone else, a foreigner, to
act as
the next of kin of the late man so that he will claim the money. This
is the
option that I can do to help anybody and myself since the money
actually is public fund due to the fact that the ate president was a close
ally to the late brutal military president that looted government treasury
and that is why I have chosen to do it. I want you to be
my partner. All you would have to do is act as the next of kin of the
dead man
and the whole money in the account will be transferred to your account.
As the
accounts officer to the late man's son, I have all the necessary
documents that you
will require to claim the money in the account.
The total money in the account is USD17 million. Your share will be 30%
which
is USD5,100,000. My own share will be 69%, which is USD11,730,000. We
shall
keep 1% which is USD170,000 for expenses.
Reach me immediately by mail so that I can give you further
details.Also provide me you with direct tel/fax to reach you and let me know if
you have a good offshore account that can carry this sum of money?
please try to write me with my private mail box mustapher_waheed@yahoo.com
Yours truly
Dr Alhaji Mustapher waheed
CRO , Habib Bank
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