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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: "henry williams" <henwilly192002@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:04:48 +0000
Subject: Read and get back to me
Mr Henry Williams
EKO-Bank Plc
15 Rue Du Guinean
Portvovo, REP. D'Benin
West Africa.
Gooday Dear,
"CONFIDENTIAL"
With due regards, I am Mr. Henry Williams a staff in the bills and exchange
at the foreign remittance Department, of ECOBank Benin . I am writing
following the impressive information about you from our chambers of commerce
and industry. And I do hope my letter will not embarrass you, since I have
no previous correspondence with you.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$9.5m) Nine million,
Five hundred thousand united states dollars only, in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers Edward Cherry who was involve and died along
with his entire family in November 2003 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 cannot release it unless
somebody applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately we learn that his supposed next of kin or relations died along
with him at the crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I and other officials in the department now decided
to make business with you, that is, to release the money to you as the next
of kin or relation to the decease since nobody is fronting for the money and
we do not want this fund to go into disbursement account as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years the money will be transferred into Federal
Government account as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and an indigene can not stand as a next of kin to a foreigner.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as the foreign partner and
10% for expenses incurred during the cost of remittance. Therefore to enable
immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged, you should contact me
with this e-mail address immediately for further briefing:
henwilly02@uymail.com
Please include your phone and fax numbers when replying.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards.
Henry Williams,
Foreign Remittance Dept
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
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