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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: "joseph1@ommail.com" <joseph_davis@freenet.de>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:18:38 -1200
Subject: Personal
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
transparency between us in this deal. I am Mr. Joseph Davis.
I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable
and reputable person to handle this confidential business
transaction. A foreigner, Name With-held until his death in
a plain Crashed few years ago, banked with us here and had a
closing balance of US$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars) which the bank unquestionably expects it
to be claimed by any available next of kin of the late
beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited
trust fund for Arms and Ammunition at a National Military
War College.
Valuable effort have been made by the bank to get in-touch
with any of the families of the depositor but proved to no
avail. it is because of the perceived possibility of not
being able to locate any of the families of the late
depositor’s next of kin that the management under the
influence of our chairman and Members Of The Boards Of
Director that an arrangement be made for the funds to be
declared Un-claimable and subsequently be donated to the
Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further Enhance the
course of war in Africa and the World in General as you
knows that war will eventually bring destruction to man
kind. In order to avert this negative development, I now
seek your permission to have you stand as the Next-Of-Kin Of
Late depositor so that the funds US$ 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 fund
was moved to one an off-shore bank abroad Finance Company
while the arrangement is also been made to donate the funds
to the Military College if no body comes up for the claim.
I am contacting you because I want the two of us to work out
modalities to secure the fund and use it for our benefit
instead of donating the money to a war college. With me in
the inside it will be very easy. All Documents and proofs to
enable us get this Fund on your name as the legal
beneficiary of the said fund will be carefully worked as the
documents to be secured shall state that you are the next of
kin and beneficiary. This transaction is 100% Risk Free so
do not be afraid. Your share out of the $20.5m depends on
our agreement as we proceed 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. If this Proposal is
all right by you.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Joseph Davis
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