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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: "Lio Davix" <liodavix@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: liodavix@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:39:35 +0200
Subject: ANSWER ME URGENTLY
Dear,
I am Lio Davix, a manager of bills/exchange at the Foreign Remittance
Department of First Bank of Africa Limited Cotonou,Benin Republic. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 21.5 m (Twenty one Million
five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) in an account that
belonged to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family on November, 1994 in a ghastly motor accident. Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come
over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, to no avail, nobody has come forward to claim the sum.
Therefore upon this discovery I and other officials in the department
decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my
contacting you. We want to purportedly present your good self as the next
of kin or relation of the deceased, so that we can release the fund into
your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and again we do not want this money to go into the Government
Account as unclaimed bill. The Banking Law and Guidelines here stipulates
that any account abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is
subject to closure and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the
Government Treasury Account. Now it is being stipulated that the above sum
will be transferred into Government Account as unclaimed Fund on or before
Dec 2005.The reason behind our requesting you to purportedly your good self
as next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the deceased was a foreigner.
Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer, my
colleagues and I will visit your country for disbursement. For the role you
will be expected to play a whole exercise, we have agreed to give you
Twenty Percent (20%) of the total sum and 80% will be kept for my
colleagues and I in your account for investment purposes in your country as
may be agreed by the transacting parties.
In support of the aforementioned therefore you are urged to reply this
letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the
business. After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the
exact steps to take. I quite believe that you will protect our interest by
keeping this business top secret and confidential. Your interest will be
equally protected as we must maintain maximum confidentiality. Trusting to
hear from you quickly through my e-mail. I count on your earliest response.
Thanks indeed for your anticipated co-operation and
best regards to you and your family.
Mr. Lio Davix.
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