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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: ferdinand_guie@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:26:36 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE.
FROM: MR FERDINAND GUEI
TEL + 27 737 391 956
Dear Friend,
I hope that you are well today. I am the director of logistics and securities at the SECURITY COMPANY here in SOUTH AFRICA. With due respect, I decided
to contact you over this business
financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22,300,000m)
in other to entrust this fund
into your bank account. This is an ABANDONED CONSIGNMENT, which I later found out to be money; this fund
belongs to one of our customers, ANDREAS SCHRANNER (German) who died along
with his entire family on 25th July 2000
in a plane crash disaster. I was very fortune to meet the
deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned
customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to the
management accordingly for documentation purposes.
Following our security company's policy, it was obviously
indicated and signed lawfully that if such consignments remains
unclaimed after 3 (three) years without somebody been a
foreigner apply and claim the consignment as the next of
kin, the consignment will be transferred into the security Treasury
as an unclaimed. This will cause other staff of my company to notice what is contained in the box. So the request of you as a foreigner
is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of
South Africa cannot come forward to claim the consignment since
the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such.
Since the real beneficiary of the fund died, my company is
expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the
consignment for him or her without delay but unfortunately I
learnt through the investigations which I carried
out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the
consignment. I need you to act fast so that we do not loose this once-in-a-life-time- opportunity. You shall provide me with your details so that the lawyer who is assisting me can go to the court and raise an affidavit of fact that you are the beneficiary of this consignment in order for us to move it to the bank where it will be comfortable for you to claim.
SEVENTY PERCENT (70%) of the total fund will be for
me. TWENTY FIVE PERCENT (25%) for you for all your efforts. five PERCENT (5%) will be for unexpected
expenses, which may occur during the process.
Thereafter you will help me to visit your country
for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated
above. For the immediate transfer of this fund into your
bank account as arranged,
Please note that you should keep this business
secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account
which you will provide. And there
is NO RISK in this business.
All necessary documents related to this and which
will prove that you made a legal claim of inheritance shall be provided. Please view details of the plane crash on the website below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
It is true that I prayed before I was pushed forward to
contact you for this business but I want you to also
assure me solemnly that you are a
trustworthy, reliable, honest and capable to avoid cheating me
in this business.
If you are really sure of your integrity, reply me for my
alternative email box (ferdinandguie77@yahoo.com) immediately
for more detailed information.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Ferdinand Guei
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