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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: "Lukeman Ige" <lukemanige@lukemanige.com>
Reply-To: lukmanige@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:38:58 +0000
Subject: next of kin
FIRST BANK NIGERIA PLC
From the desk of: Mr Lukman Ige
Head Office
11B Akin Adesola Street
Victoria Island.
Lagos Nigeria.
Private email: lukmanige@yahoo.com
Dear Sir / Madam,
I am Mr Lukman Ige, Branch Manager with FIRST BANK
NIGERIA PLC. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and cooperation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of ($25.5 million u.s.
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our late
foreign customer who died in the Ikeja bomb blast of
the Febuary 2, 2002 my client, his wife, and their two
children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast
unfortunately they lost their lives in the process of
the bomb blast.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting
his next-of-kin to come over and make claims for his
money as the next of kin to the deceased, because 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.
Unfortunately, neither their family member or distant
relative has ever appeared to claim the said funds.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my
department have agreed to make business with you and
release the total amount ($25.5 million u.s. dollars)
to you as the next of kin to the deceased since no
one came for it or discovered his maintained account
with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to
the banks treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed
that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 30%
for you as foreign partner, 65% for us the officials
in my department and 5% for the settlement of all
local and foreign expenses incurred during the course
of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and
one of my colleagues will come down to your country
and mind our share. It is from our 65% we intend to
import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a
way of recycling the funds.
To commence this transaction, we require you to
furnish us with the following information below:-
1) Your Full Name
2) Your Residential Address
3) Your Telephone Number
4) Your age
5) Occupation / Marital Status
Upon receipt of the above information from you, we
will contract an attorney who will secure all the
required legal documents from the Federal High Court
proving you as the next of kin to the deceased, and
also to enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals before
the transfer can be made.
I look forward to receiving your prompt response
through my private email address
(lukmanige@yahoo.com)
Best regards,
Mr Lukman Ige
For confirmation, please refer to the links below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worald/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html
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