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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: ERICJAMES@terra.es (MR JAMES ERIC.)
Reply-To: ERICJAMES@terra.es
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:51:30 +0300
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT
Mr.JAMES ERIC .
HSBC Holdings plc
8 Canada Square
London E14 5HQ
Attention:Sir/Madam.
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having
gone through your remarkable profile on the internet.
Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to
reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and
most secured medium of communication.
My name is Mr.ERIC JAMES, I am the credit manager in a bank here in
the United Kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a
huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off,
and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you
due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in
an earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh along
with his wife and entire family in December 26 2004 you can confirm
this from the published by CNN.Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all
died in the same earthquake and tsunami-ravaged (May their soul rest in
peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone
applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully
worked out by me for the funds (US$5,000,000.00) to be released in your
favour as
the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that we have
secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the
deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the
following information if you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name, and complete postal address..In order for me to
prepare the document for transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers...For our personal contact and
mutual trust in each other,for more confidentiality and trust.
I shall be compensating you with a million dollars ($1Million dollars)
on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while the
balance $4million dollars shall be for me for investment purposes. If
this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavour to contact me
immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have
bestowed in
you, I await your urgent mail to my personal email address:
{jameseric44@yahoo.co.uk }
Yours sincerely,
Mr.JAMES ERIC .
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