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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: "jeff ojei" <mr_jeffojei@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_jeffojei@88.am
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:15:35 +0000
Subject: MUTUAL RELATIOMUTUAL RELATIONSHIP/PLEASE GET BACK TO ME
DEAR SIR/MRS,
I am MR.JEFF OJEI an account officer with ECO BANK PLC . I am writing
following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to
both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $30 million
(Thirty million united states dollars ) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers Late Glenn Hatleberg an American oil engineer with
SUMMIT OIL SERVICES LTD who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash
of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including
his wife. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this
site.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/Glenn
Hatleberg.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
wife [Barbara Hatleberg]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 if such money remained after five years the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds. We
agreed that 30% 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. Please in your response include your telephone number for
easy communication between us.
Best regards,
MR JEFF OJEI.
Please reply through this email addresses:
mr_jeffojei@88.am
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