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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 Maxwell Thomson" <mrmaxthom@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr_maxthom@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:49:18 +0000
Subject: To whom it may concern
Good Day ,
It's my pleasure to introduce to you a business opportunity to transfer to your oversea account the sum of $8.4Million USD(Eight million four hundred thousand dollar)from one of the prime banks in Europe.
I am Mr Maxwell Thomson (Bsc,Msc)The managing director of international money remittance department of one of the prime banks here in Senegal.
On 21st April 2002,I surpervised a wire transfer of the $8.4Million USD through our Bank to a prime Bank in Europe belonging to a foreigner, Who used to work as an Estate Consultant here in Senegal before his demise on the 17th of June 2002 ,After a brief illness of a respiratory problem (Asthma).
The Bank at which the deceased made the transder has issued a note of enquiries concerning the fund beneficiary as it is against the Banking Ethics for an account to be left unserviced for a period of five years.
I am contacting you to assist in repartrating the money since the account has no Next of kin and Nobody is putting a claim on it before they got it confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank as an unclaimed bill.
There is nothing that will bar the Bank from approving the payment to a foreigner who has the correct informations of the fund and the deceased , which i will give to you upon your positive response and once i'm convinced of your capability and assurance that you will not let me down and besides it is of a great advantage that you are of the same surname with the
deceased (Late Engr.Riast Bajwa Uddin)
At the conclussion of this project ,we may proceed into an investment as equal partners of which you are to guide it pending my resignation which will be in a short while after the transfer if you may wish or we may share it in a ratio of 4.5 for you and 5.5 for me.
I look forward to your earliest response.
Best regards
Mr Maxwell Thomson.
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