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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: Dickson Rock <rockdick17@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:27:07 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Urgent Reply Needed
Dear Buist J
Please do not be surprised to receive this mail from someone relatively unknown to you. I want you to know that this is no joke or a Spam generated message. I am Mr.Dickson Rock, Area Manager of Africa international Bank, Accra-Ghana in west Africa.
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On december 1999, a African farm consultant/contractor with the Ghana Cotton Coporation, Mr. MATIONA MUSHAYA from Zimbabwe made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at $10,300,000.00,(Ten Million three hundred thousand Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After some months, I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract Company.(T.C.C.) that Mr. MATIONA MUSHAYA died from political misunderstanding that affected most farmers from his country Zimbabwe.On further investigation, I found out that he died with his wife who is the nearest person to him MRS.ONIAS MUSHAYA without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his any next of kin was fruitless because he had no child. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. MATIONA MUSHAYA did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents here in Ghana and Zimbabwe, also including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
No one will ever come forward to claim it in the bank again. According to Republic of Ghana law, at the expiration of 2 (two) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Ghana Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and that is the reason why I am Contacting you now to stand as the next of kin to the fund here with the bank. Consequently, my wish is that I will want you as a Foreigner to stand in as the owner of the Fund.
I am writing to you because, I as a public servant, can not operate a foreign account or have an account that is more than $100,000 here in Ghana. I want to present you as the next of kin to this fund with our bank so that you would be able to claim them with my help here as the manager of the (bank).All these are to make sure that the fortune will not get into the hands of this corrupt government officials we have here. I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address The fund will be retrieved from the bank by you here with my assitance and the money will be moved out to any place of your choice which is the account you wish to provide for the transfer and I will be coming over for us to share in the ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you.NOTE, That the bank here did not know my involdment in this deal.So you must to be very careful not to let the bank know about me in this deal since I am still working here with the bank.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by me and this will guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via my email address. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details that will help you understand the transaction. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country, like buying of landed properties, stocks e.t.c
Waiting to hear from you.
Regards,
Mr.Dickson Rock
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