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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: "Anderson Gibbson" <anderson@ideallaw.net>
Reply-To: anderson_gibson@myway.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:37:15 +0000
Subject: Business Partner
The Bank Manager
CITI BANK
332 Oxford Street, London
W1N 9AA.
Tel:44-7031947482
fax:448717200287
ATTN:
I am Anderson Gibson the Bank Manager of CITIBANK 332 Oxford Street, London
W1N 9AA.Tel:44-7031947482 fax:448717200287
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On
June 6, 1997, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH
PETROLUEM CORPORATION MR. HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE. Made a numbered time (Fixed
deposit)
for 36 calendar months, valued at US$29,500,000.00 (Twenty Nine Million
Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity in
2000,I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contractemployers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr. HAFFEZ AL
SADIQUE
died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during one of
his trips to his country Iraq. On further investigation, I found out that
he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin
was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that
MR HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE. Did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$29,500,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 2000
in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British law at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money
will
revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund and the eight years is the end of December 2005.
Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a
foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the
deceased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated
account.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully
worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate
any
of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I are assuring you that the
business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me
and
for investment purpose, as I will leave London by the end of the year.
The sharing of the funds will be based According to agreement within
you and me. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this
message in acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you
with
the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties
without any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue
advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.
ENDEAVOUR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR
REPLY.
Best Regards
Mr. Anderson Gibson
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