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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: "Dr Yusuf Ahmed" <yusuf445@inbox.ru> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yusufahmed73@plasa.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:32:32 +0200
Subject: From Dr Yusuf Ahmed
Dear Sir
I am a staff of Financial Bank, Benin. 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 US$15.5million (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, only) in
a 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 261 which crashed on
January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves 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 fund.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner and
5% for expenses, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages i ndicated
above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalised.
We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.Please in your response include
your telephone number for easy communication between us.
Best regards
Mrs Fatima Ali
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