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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: "Mr Aminu Zaki" <aminu@handbag.com>
Reply-To: aminu2@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:38:59 +0100
Subject: FROM BARRISTER GEORGE & CO.
Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Aminu Zaki, Barrister and Solicitor to a deceased Immigrant
engineer and property magnate who was based in the U.S, Also referred to
as my client.
I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company
to handle a onfidential transaction on behalf of my Colleagues and myself
as a matter of fact, I got your information from the Nigerian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry / Nigerian Export Promotion Council.
I write in respect of a foreign customer with A/C Number:14-2558-2004, 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 sons leaving
nobody to claim the money.
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site:
<<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list>>
The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska. Since the death of this our customer
Mr. Morris Thompson, I have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records
and accounts since then nobody has come forward to claim the money in this
A/C as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson.
The total amount in the account is US$15.5 million and it is a domiciliary
escrow bank account.
It is only an insider, the account owner or a next of kin who has information
about the account that could produce the Code or password of the deposit
particulars. Also the funds can only be released to a foreigner.
As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce the needed information
other than my very self-considering my position as his legal Attorney.
Based on the fact that Mr. Morris Thompson's family perished in the same
flight accident , leaving no one to put claim of the deposit as the next
of kin, so I am seeking for your co-operation to present you as the next
of kin to late Thompson, and arrange for the release of the funds to your
honour for our mutual benefit.
If there is more delay in moving this money out, this money will be pushed
to the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 60 - 30%. You shall
have 30% of the funds and I shall have 60 while 10% will be set asside incase
of any expenses incured by the both of us in the process of this transaction.
I hope this is a fair sharing? I look forward to hearing from you urgently
so that we can proceed accordingly.
I await for your urgent response.
Thanks and best Regards.
Mr. Aminu Zaki.
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