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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: "Victor Oynemachi" <victoroyn@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: victor_onyemachi@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:32:08 +0000
Subject: Letter of Intent
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please forgive me if I intrude your privacy, we do not know each other but
it does not matter. what matters is transperency between us in this deal. I
am Mr Victor onyemachi an Accountant I came to know about you in my private
search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidencial
business transaction. A foreigner, Late Engr Dahlig Michell until his death
in Korean Air flight which Crashed in Guam on August 1997, banked with us
here and had a closing balance of US$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars) which the bank unquestionably expects it to be claimed by
any available next of kin of the late beneficiary or alternatively be
donated to a discredited trust fund for Arms and Ammunition at a National
Military War College here in Nigeria.
Valuable effort have been made by our Institution to get in-touch with any
of the Michelle's family or relative but proved to no avail.it is because of
the perceived possiblity of not being able to locate any of the late Engr.
Michell's next of kin that the management under the influence of our
chairman and Members Of The Boards Of Director that an arrangement be made
for the funds to be declared Unclaimable and subsequently be donated to the
Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further Enhance the course of war in
Africa and the World in General as you know that war will eventually bring
destruction to man kind. In order to avert this negative development, I now
seek your permissionto have you stand as the Next-Of-Kin Of . Engr Dahlig
Michelle so that the funds US$ 20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars) would be release and pay into your Bank Account as the Next Of Kin.
Just recently the funds was moved to one of THERE off-shore Finance Company
Abroad while the arrengment is also been made to donate the funds if no
available next of kin comes up.
This is a deal between you and I only. All Documents and proofs to enable us
get this Fund will be carefully Worked out and more so I am Assuring you a
100% Risk Free Involvment in this deal. your share out of the $20.5m depends
on our agreement as we procceed with the deal. I will appreciate if you send
to me your age, your job type and personal information in your reply to this
mail. I will like to invest my own part of the money in your country with
your help after the transfer. If this Proposal is all right by you then
kindly get back to me by e-mail . Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Victor Onyemachi
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