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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: "Sean Glen" <sean_glen47@b-scotland.com>
Reply-To: sean_glen4747@myway.com
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:20:39 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT (M)
PRIVATE AND URGENT (M)
From Mr. Sean Glen,
E-mail:sean_glen4747@myway.com
Bank of Scotland Mauritius.
Dear Friend,
PRIVATE AND URGENT
Please do not be offended if I have invaded your privacy. I am Mr. Sean
Glen, and I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction and you dont have to worry of spending any funds
of your own as we have saved for this and we are sure we can do this with
out your spending any funds at your end.
PROPOSITION.
I am the account officer to Mr. Selah Adams (deceased) one of our foreign
customers. While he banked with us, I oversaw his accounts and other
official/financial obligations as my office demanded being his accounts
officer. Unfortunately, he died along with his entire family in the plane
crash of 31 October, 1999 on board the Egyptian Airline 990 alongside other
passengers.
While he was alive, none of his family members was ever known to me other
than his immediate nuclear family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir. I
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Having made a very franatic and exhaustive search for any family member that
would lay claim to this fund, I decided to take my chance with you. I now
seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased as I
have all documentations including his certified Death Certificate that will
facilitate your stand as next of kin to him as he had a closing balance of
5,500,000.00lbs (five million, five hundred thousand pounds sterling) here
in our Bank of Scotland Mauritius Branch. I also have secured from the
probate an order of mandamus to locate any member of deceased family to
become beneficiary of this fund.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following to my PRIVATE
E-mail: sean_glen4747@myway.com
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internalre-adjustments and file
your name in form A2ag and other vital forms as next of kin which before now
was left blank by the deceased upon opening of the account six years ago.
Upon your reply, I will advice the way forward. I must assure you that if
you are serious and follow my lead religiously, then this funds will be
released to you within a seven-working-day period.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you, you can lean abount Mauritius by clicking the
link bellow,
http://s2.emedia.com.my/Misc/Mauritius/about_html
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=MU
I await your urgent mail.
Regards,
Mr. Sean Glen.
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