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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: "Oladele Steve" <oladelesteve@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: oladelesteve@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:16:53 +0100
Subject: OLADELE
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of GLOBAL BANK PLC. here in Nigeria. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$20.2M (Twenty million, two hundred thousand united
states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
(MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany)who worked with Shell Oil
Development Nigeria and died while on holiday in Germany with his entire
family in July
2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we
don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect for the
provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 60% would be for me. Thereafter, I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. To enable
the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged.
You must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
, you will be required to provide for me your full name ,permanent address
and private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will be
remitted. This fund will be remitted into your designated bank account via
our head Office in London or Spain online.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately you receive this letter.
Please ensure to keep our transaction strictly confidential until the fund
remittance is complete.
I await your reply.
Yours faithfully,
MR.OLADELE STEVEN
FOREIGN-OPERATION UNIT.
GLOBAL BANK PLC.
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