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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: robert leith <robleith03@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:45:54 +1000 (EST)
Subject: FROM THE OFFICE OF MR ROBERT LEITH
Dearest,
I am Mr. Robert Leith,a manager in the Bills and
Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of one
of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing this
letter to ask for your support and
cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in
my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of$12,500,000.00(Twelve
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Mr. Andreas Schranner(a German property
magnate) who died along with his entire family a wife
and a daughter on 31 July, 2000 in an aeroplane crash.
Since we heard of his death via the news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over
and put claims for his money as the heir,because we
cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in ourbanking guidelines.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant
relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund.It is in our
banking guideline that if none of the relatives come
up to claim this fund after 5years of the death of the
late customer,the fund will be regarded as an
unclaimed bill and will be
transferred to the bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my
department have agreed to make business with you and
release the total amount into your account as the heir
of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he
maintained account with our bank,otherwise the fund
will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed
fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as
stated thus;30 % for you as foreign partner,65 % for
us the officials in my department and 5 % for the
settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred
by us and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and
one of my colleagues will come to your country and
mind our share. It is from our 75% we intend to import
Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction,we require you to
immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail
with the following information:
1)Your private telephone and fax number
2.Your full name
Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you
and give you the mordalities for the bank to approve
you as the next of kin.
Note also, this transaction must be kept secret
because of its nature.I look forward to receiving your
prompt response.Please get back to me at my private
email:robleith02@yahoo.com.au
Best Regards
Mr. Robert Leith
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