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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: "George Benneth" <georgebenneth@unionbanksng.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:10:19 +0000
Subject: Attn.
FROM: MR. GEORGE BENNETH
ACCOUNTANT, UBN
LAGOS – NIGERIA
E-MAIL: bennethubn@yahoo.fr
TEL/FAX: 234-9-2721973
Dear Friend,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we
have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions
of this nature. Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I
am Mr. George Benneth an Accountant with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
Lagos. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and
Reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
confidence.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner Late Engineer Walter Levelle McCray a native of your country was
a Pipeline Engineer with the Federal Government, until his death five years
ago in a pipeline Fire Incidents in warri, banked with us here at Union Bank
Plc. Lagos, and had a closing balance of US$13.5M (Thirteen Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably
expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late
beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms
and Ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch
with any of the Walter Levelle McCray family or relatives but proved to no
avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to
locate any of Late Engr. Walter Levelle McCray 's next-of-kin (he had no
known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our
chairman and member of the board of rectors, retired Major General Aku W.
Aku, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE"
and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to
further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted colleagues and
I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.
Walter Levelle McCray so that the funds US$13.5M would be released and paid
into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin. All documents and
proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and more so
we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues for and myself
Investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the funds will be
shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account 1. 30% of the
money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds. 2. 10% will
be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses
that may be incurred in the course of the transfer. 3. 60% to us the
originators of the transaction.
If this proposal is acceptable by you and you do not wish to take undue
advantage of the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your company, then
kindly get to me immediately via my private Email: bennethubn@yahoo.fr for
security reason. Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax
number and exclusive bank particulars so that I can use this information to
apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. George Benneth
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