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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: "ron wells" <ronwells5@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:19:12 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANT NEEDED,
FROM:RON WELLS (VICE PRESIDENT/AUDITOR)
CITIZEN NATIONAL BANK N.A LONDON
Attention Please,
I am pleased to introduce myself to you. My name is RON WELLS, branch
vice president/aditor of the CITIZEN NATIONAL BANK N.A LONDON I am
contacting you in regards to a business transaction of the sum of money
from a deceased account (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), who was a businessman
to one Oil Company, in London Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of this business transaction by
the special grace of almighty God believing that you can never let me down
either now and after you have receive the money. I decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction because I am the branch manager
of said bank specify above.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a
foreign account as the real beneficiary. I need your full co-operation,
Trust and Honest to make this work successful, because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any Foreigner who has the correct
information to our late customer. I will use my position and influence
on other staffs to effect the legal approvals and onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from foreign payment
department. With assurance that this money will be intact pending my
physical arrival in your country for the sharing and other investment.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of $20,500,000.00 USD (Twenty Million
Five Hundred Thousand Usd) in an account that belongs to one of our
customers (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), a Foreigner, who died along with the
passengers and crew aboard Egypt air flight 990, which crashed into the
Atlantic
ocean on October 31, 1999 with his lovely wife (MRS. BETTY VAN BUSKIRK)
and his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.
Please, you can confirm through;
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html>
We cannot release the fund from his account unless Someone applies for
claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds ($20,500,000.00 USD) to be
released in your favor as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may
interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus
to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please, acknowledge the receipt
of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following through 1. Your full names, address 2.
Direct
Telephone and fax numbers.
These requirements will enable us file a letter of Claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favor before
the transfer can be made and this take place after my conversation with you
on telephone. We shall be compensating you with 30% of the total money on
final conclusion, 5% shall be for expenses incur by both of us and 65%
shall be for me.If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue
advantage of
the trust i have bestowed in you. I await your urgent response and note
that you are the only person i have contacted for now and any delay will
make me to contact another person for the same transaction. PLEASE YOUR
REPLY
SHOULD BE SENT TO ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE E-MAIL: ronwells101@yahoo.it
PHONE NUMBER: 44-703-194-4667
May God bless us, Amen?
Your sincerely,
RON WELLS (VICE PRESIDENT/AUDITOR)
CITIZEN NATIONAL BANK N.A LONDON
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