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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: "j_edwards_j@handbag.com" <j_edwards_j@handbag.com>
Reply-To: john_edwards100@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 07:51:54 +0100
Subject: confidential
From: Mr John Edwards
24 River lane Government
Reserved Area, Abuja.
Telephone:+234 803 881 4129
Dear Friend,
With all due respect, I guess my letter will not
embarrass you, since I
have no previous correspondence with you. I strongly
believed, I would
not regret approaching you in this matter. I am
mr.charles brown, a
solicitor at law and the personal Attorney to late Mr
Mark Michelle, a
french national. late Mr Mark Michelle is a private
oil
consultant/contractor with the Shell Petroleum
Development in Saudi Arabia, herein after
shall be referred to as my client.
I have a very urgent and mutual business relationship
to propose to you.
on thursday june 6th 2000, my client and his wife with
their three
children were involved in an auto clash, all occupants
of the vehicle
unfortunately lost their lives. since then, I have
made several enquiries
with his country's embassies to locate any of my
clients extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. after
these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to personally contact
you with this business
partnership proposal. I have contacted you to assist
in repatriating a
huge amount of money left behind by my client before
they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the finance and security
company where
these huge deposit was lodged. the deceased had a
deposit valued presently
at $12,000,000.00 million us dollars (twelve million
united state
dollars) and company has issued me a notice to provide
his next of kin or
beneficiary by will otherwise have the account
confiscated within the
next thirty working days.
Having been unsuccessful in locating any of my late
client relatives
for over two (2) years now. I am now seeking your
consent to present you
as the next of kin/beneficiary to the deceased so that
the proceeds of
this account valued at $ 12 million united states
dollars can be paid
to you. it is not necessary to be a blood relation to
late Mr Mark
Michelle, neither is it necessary to bear the same
surname with him. it is
even not important for the stand-in next of kin to be
a french
national.
Already, I have worked out modalities for achieving my
aim of
appointing a next of kin as well as transfer the money
abroad for us to share in
the ratio of 60% for me and 40% to you. it is my
intention to achieve
this transfer in a legitimate way, all I required is
your honest,
co-operation,confidentiality and trust to enable us
see this transaction
through. The money transfer paper work itself will
include a certificate
of origin so that the receiving bank does not ask
question. Also the
paper work will include proper certificate that the
fund being
transferred is from non-criminal sources. in short
this will be a proper and
legal money transfer with apparently no risk involved.
The transaction
is guaranteed to succeed without any problem.
As soon as I hear from you, I shall provide you with
further
clarification that you may need.
your urgent response will be highly anticipated and
appreciated.
Best wishes,
Mr.John Edwards
Telephone:+234 803 881 4129
Note: If you are not capable or willing to help kindly
delete the
message from your email box.
___________________________________________________________
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