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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: "Mehmet Fehmi" <fehmi_mehmet101@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:06:33 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE NEEDED
Fehmi Mehmet
110 Half Edge Lane,Ellesmere Park,
Eccles, Greater Manchester,
United Kingdom
Dear Friend,
I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. I am writing
following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of
imense benefit to both of us.In my department we
discovered an abandoned sum of £26.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Twenty Six million five hundred
thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and
only daughter. Youshall read more about the crash on
visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over
and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin
being his only daughter died along with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and
two other officials in this department now decided
to make business with you and release the money to you
as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for
safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don't want this money to go
back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
such money remained after five years the money will
be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
funds.We agreed that 35% of this money will be for
you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for me
and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated
above once this money gets into your account. Please
be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this
transaction.Note this transaction is confidential
and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you
should contact me by return mail. Please note that all
necessary arrangement for the smooth release of
these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss
much in details when I do receive your response,do email
me via my private email
fehmi_mehmet101@yahoo.com
and lets discuss more on this.
Best regards
Fehmi Mehmet
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