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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: Jerry Osamor <jerryosa@alvilag.hu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:05:08 +0200
Subject: Urgent Attention Pls.
Dear Friend,
How are you today?
With compliments and humble respect please I beg your pardon
for this unsolicited nature, it was out of desperation
and Curiosity that made me to contact you, firstly let me
introduce myself to you, I am Barrister Jerry Osamor, a solicitor
at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Thompson Harbin, a national
of your country, who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC) here in Nigeria, is referred to as my
trusted client.
On Sunday, 27th of January 2003, my client, his wife
{Lady Anna and their three children {Elizabeth, Dexter
and James} were involved in terrible bomb blast that
took live of innocent souls and unfortunately over
1000, people lost their lives and my client and his
Family was part of this people that lost their lives.
In view of this, please view the web page below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
Since then I have made several enquiries to your
Embassy to locate any of my client's
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to track his last name over the Internet, to
locate any member of his family or any close name to
his, hence I contacted you.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the
money and property left behind by my client before
they get liquidated or declared Unserviceable by the
Bank where these huge deposits were lodged,
particularly the ECO-BANK PLC where the deceased had
His account valued precisely to be USD$28.
million dollar}.
The bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of
Kin or have the account liquidated within the next
Twenty-one official working days. Consequently, my
proposal is that I will like you to stand in as the Next of
Kin, so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the
hands of some group of corrupt government officials
who will get rid of the money and share it for their
own selfish interest and greed.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your prompt
consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of
this account valued at USD$28, Million can be paid to you
and then you and I can share the money
according to any agreed ratio. All I require is your
honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through. Kindly reply me with my private email address: (jerryosa@eriga.lv).
I guarantee that this will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law. Looking forward to your swift
reply.
Regards,
Barrister Jerry Osamor.
Contact Email:jerryosa@eriga.lv
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