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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: "Bar. Ramandan Oman." <barroman01@eresmas.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:25:08 -0800
Subject: SWIFT RESPONSE...
Salam,
I am BARR.RAMANDAN OMAN, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, 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 will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
and also in this website, where Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a spokesman from his family talked about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, and his wife there.
Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, Hailed from United States Of America. Since the death of DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, I as his personal attorney, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY relations, so I decided to contact you for this project to know if you are the Next Of Kin to Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, and his family.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by United Trust Bank Plc where my client operates an account worth $USD60.5 Million Dollars. The board of United Trust Bank Plc has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared nserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, relatives for sometime now, it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner,so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD60.5Million Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments.
Upon the receipt of the following,i will make sure i submit them to the Central Computing Unit of the Bank as the Next Of Kin to my late client:
1.Your Full Name(first and last name)
2.Resident address
3.Phone Numbers
4.Age
5.Occupation
6.Bank account details(where you want the funds to be enacted into).
I have worked out the modalities for the persecution of this transaction which had meets all necessary requirements in our country and those of international arbitration. All requires is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of United Trust Bank Plc.
Further details awaits your response by email.
PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Yours faithfully,
BAR.RAMANDAN OMAN
EMAIL: barroman@hotmail.com
TEL:+234 80 36454040
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