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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: "james radebe" <jamesradebe@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:06:04 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL !!!
ABSA FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
(Reg No.1991/00881/06 )
62 Empire Road Parktown 2193
P.0.Box 6005 Johannesburg 2000
Tel :+27 -73-1751-820
Attention: Sir/Madam.
I am a staff of Amalgamated Bank of South Africa (ABSA) ,this BANK is also
a correspondant of London international branch,HSBC Bank,Plc.Level 26, 8
Canada Square LONDON. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office
that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £4.2million British
PoundsSterling (FOUR million Two hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261which crashed on January- 31- 2000, including his
wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting
this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as
indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two
other officials in this department now decided to make business with you
and
release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for
safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and
we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed
bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money
remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the
balance will be for my colleagues and I. I will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money
gets into your account. Please be honest to me. Note this transaction is
confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should
contact me through my e-mail address.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you as has been finalised. We will discuss much in details when I
do receive
Best Regards,
Dr James Radebe
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