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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: "sandosa" <sandosamendosa@educ.ar>
Reply-To: sandosamendosa10@surimail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:43:59 -0700
Subject: PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET
Norges Bank
Queensberry House
3 Old Burlington st.
London W1S 3AE.
PHONE ;44-870-134-7273
Email; sandosamendosa10@surimail.com
Hello,
I am Mr.S.Mendosa, a banker with the Norges Bank London,I am the Account
officer to late Mr. Robert Chapman, the African Area Director of SIL International,
who unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan,
Ivory Coast, January 30 2000.You may have read about Mr. Chapman when he
was alive.He was from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Since the death of Chapman, I as his account officer in the bank, have made
several enquiries to locate hisonly surviving child, without any success.
I came across your name and contact, on the course of my personal search
for Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project.I
am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Robert Chapman,
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank.
The Board of Directors of my bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months
from now and no next of kin shown up for the claim, the funds will be confiscated
and declared unserviceable. Since there has been unsuccessful in locating
Robert's relatives for sometime now, I seek your consent to present you
as the Next of Kin to the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the
proceed of this deposit valued at $USD15M (Fifteen Million United States
Dollars) can be released to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who has all related information/documents
to the bank account. I am in charge of this matter in my bank,because I
am his account officer. Your application
will be directed to my department for verification and approval. Everything
is under my control.I shall provide to you all the information concerning
the deposit of the funds. I shall also involve a good attorney who shall
represent you in all the appropriate offices for the claim. I also have
all necessary information we need for the claim and once the money is transferred
to you, I shall destroy all the documents used for the claim and leave no
traces.
After everything, you shall have 45% of the total sum,while 45% for me,
5% for charity organisation and 5% for expenses.All I require is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law. Robert was a very good man and it is not wise
to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of
my bank.Further details await your response by email. PLEASE,TREAT THIS
PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards,
Mr.S.Mendosa
Norges Bank London.
PHONE; +44-870-134-7273.
Email; sandosamendosa10@surimail.com
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