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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: "Peter William" <peterwilliam@peterwilliam1.org>
Reply-To: peterwilliam131@myway.com
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:19:59 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME
GOOD DAY,
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am the manager Bills
and Exchange of Foreign Remittance office of African Express Banking
Corporation plc (A.E.B.C. Headquarters Lagos Nigeria) formally Barclays Bank
of England(BBE-England]. In accordance with Federal Government Policies, on
indeginlization Law on company and Allied matters, of Jan 1972.
I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to
carry out this transaction. The bank discovered an abandoned sum of US$25.5
million (twenty five million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our Foreign customer ,a national of your country, who
used to be a financial controller with Shell Oil development company in
Nigeria. Him and His wife and their three children were involved in a plane
crash,
November 2000. Since this development, we have advertised for his next of
kin or any close relation to come forward to claim this money, but nobody
came to apply for the claim.
To this effect, I have decided to look for a trusted foreign partner who can
stand in as the next of kin to the deceased and claim this money. I need a
foreign partner to apply for the claim because of the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and we don't want this money to go into the Banks Treasury
as unclaimed fund.
NOTE: You do not have to be directly related to the deceased, in order to
assist me in carrying out this transaction.Every document to effect this
process will emanate from my table and I will perfect every document to be
in accordance with the banking law and guidelines, So you have nothing to
worry about. I and my coleagues agreed that 30% of the money will be for
you, 10% for expenses incurred on both sides, while 60% will be for me and
my coleagues. If you are going to help me, indicate by replying this letter
and putting in your private phone,mobile and fax numbers for easy
communicating, I await your kind response,Please if you are interested and
capable in handling this deal with me, due reply only on my alternative
email address for security reasons (peterwilliam131@myway.com) And note that
the nurture of this deal needs a very top secrecy
I await your immediate reply to enable us start this transaction in earnest.
Once I receive your reply, I will send you the Text of Application for
immediate of claim.
Thanks for your anticipated assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Mr PETER WILLIAM,
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