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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: "mike spears" <mspears10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mspears10@rixmail.se
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:12:53 +0000
Subject: FINAL NOTICE OF BEQUEST
The Beneficiary,
Estate of Engr. Trevor Williams.
FINAL NOTIFICATION
Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous correspondence
have been sent to you but we did not get any response from you. Bear in mind
that no execution will be carried out without the endorsement of Rev. Father
Lloyd Martins (the overseer of the church where he worshiped before his
death here in London)and me the attorney for the execution.
On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of
Engr. Trevor Williams (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a
beneficiary to the bequest of the sum of US$1.3M [One Million Three Hundred
And Thousand US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased.
The late Trevor Williams until his death was a former Managing Director and
pioneer staff of a big construction company in China and later invested in
poultry farm and rice. He established himself as a wealthy farmer in Asia
where he exported rice and other poultry produce.
He was a very dedicated man and a great philantropist during his life time.
He involved himself in helping people by giving investable loans in
agriculture and other ventures.
Late Trevor Williams died on 9th December 2004 at the age of 78. He
has since been buried on the 23rd of December 2004. He was an American lived
in Asia all through his active years but later moved down to London due to
long term illness where he died in a specialist hospital. He was married but
without a child an lost his wife in 1986 due to breast cancer.
He said in his words as stated in his last testament that "it is my desired
wish to see that the poor and less privileged are given assistance by any
means and imit this token could go, especially Asia, Africa and South
America having seen it all myself". He therefore advised that this amount be
"invested and the part of the proceeds be used in the work of humanity".
I hereby request that you forward your current telephone for further
discussion and your forwarding address to enable us file necessary documents
of claims at probate registry for the release of this funds to you. Please
note that this is for real as probate expenses has been provided for.
Please inform me if you did receive this notification this time or the Rev
Lloyd Martins (revlloyd@alexandria.cc)
Yours faithfully,
Mike Spears (llb.Lon)
Estate of Trevor
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