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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: "DR DAVID COLE" <drdavidcole1@i12.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: drdavdcole@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:33:17 -0700
Subject: HELLO:
Attention :SIR
I am a senior staff with EFG Bank London. I am
writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
£10.5million British Pounds Sterling (Ten million five hundred
thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane 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 site which I got during my
investigation;
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 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 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 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
such money remained after five years the money will be transferred into
banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, while the balance will be for my colleagues and I. I
will visit your country for the disbursement according to the
percentages indicated above once this money gets int your account. Please be
honest to me.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
Please note that all thenecessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has beenfinalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your
response.
Best regards
DR DAVID COLE
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