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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: sammy utan <sammyutan4@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:45:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: My Dear Friend, Urgent
CITIZEN BANK INTERNATIONAL LTD.
LAGOS.NIGERIA
Dear Friend,
I am the Operations Officer,
BILL AND EXCHANGE of THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE
DEPARTMENT OF CITIZEN BANK LTD.
LAGOS.NIGERIA.
I am writing to you, following the impressive information about your
profile through the Website,and I believe in your capability and
reliability to champion this opportunity. In my department, we
discovered an abandoned sum of 14million US dollars (Fourteen million US
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who
died along with his entire family in october6,1996 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release
it unless some body applies for it as next of Kin or relative to the
deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but
unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died
with him in the accident leaving nobody behind to claim the money.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and
we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
bills. The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Ten years, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family.We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction and 75 % would be for me and my colleagues.
Thereafter,I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enhance the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first
to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your
private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication
and location where the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the
text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements havebeen made for the
transfer. You should contact me on MY E-MAIL, as soon as you receive
this letter. I decided to contact you as you have products of interest
in your part of the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are civil servants.
Note that we can conclude this operation within ten banking days.Please
keep this very confidential for obvious security reasons. Contact me for more information, all confirmable before you apply if you want. Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed information which are
confirmable before you can makeup your mind to apply.If however,you are
not interested,do let me know by returm maill too as I will not contact
anybody else until I hear from you.
May God be with you.
Yours faithfully
Mr Sammy Utan
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