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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: christson jonah <christson3@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: christson_2com@myway.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:57:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: hello hope to hear from you
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Christson Jonah, A Manager at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
A foreigner, Late Engineer William Adams, an oil Merchant /contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$22.2M (Twenty-Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably
expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by this bank to get in touch with any of late Engr. William Adams's next of kin (he had no known wife and children), but all our efforts proof abortive. Right now, the management and the Board of directors of this bank has made an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust
fund for Arms and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Engr.WILLIAMS ADAMS's next of kin so that this fund (USD$22.2M) would be subsequently transferred and paid
into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest would be for myself and mycolleagues for purposes in your country.If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail address furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details
of this transaction.You can send me your reply to my personal email address christson3@yahoo.com
Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.
Regards.
Dr.Christson Jonah
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