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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: kwesi_acha@handbag.com
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 01:33:09 +0100
Subject: Assistance Required
Dear friend,
I am Mr Kwesi Achampong and i work with a bank (one of the African leading
banks in the West Coast).I am writing you following an oppurtunity in my
office that will be of immensebenefit to both of us,in my department we
discovered an abandoned sum of $30.5million United State Dollar (thirty
million five
hundred thousand United State Dollar)in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign
customers Late Mr.Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his
life in theplane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January
31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about
the crash on visiting this website.
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 the Bank cannot
release the funds 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 do 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.
We agreed that 40% 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 (kwesiachampong@k.ro) whether
or not you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one
about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you
mention this to someone else.
I hope you can be trusted in this regard. Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalized.
We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response. Please
in your response include your Name, Telephone number and Fax number for
a better communication between us.
Best Regard,
Mr Kwesi Acahmpong
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