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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: "benson dickson" <bensondickson@accountanthome.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:29:20 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE
From the desk of
Mr Benson Dickson
Email:benson5@myway.com
Attn:Sir/Madam,
I am Mr Benson Dickson the personal account officer to Late Morris
Thompson,a national of your country, who used to work with shell development
Company.After shall be referred to as my client.
On 31st October 1999, my client alongside his wife and their three children
died through an air crash in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers
on board, he was travelling with his partner Mr Bradley Long when this
occure.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Meanwhile, Late Morris Thompson, my client never used his original namesand
that of his entire family to book the flight from Newyork, as he was
travelling on his personaltrip and never wanted the Shell Development
company to know about this because it was illegal and could jeoperdise his
job.
Hence it took some time to know about his death by his company on the plane
crash and beside, why you did not see your surname listed.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives for their fund, but this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his surname
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable
by the bank where this huge deposit was lodged.
Where the deceased had an account valued at about $9.5MILLION DOLLARS has
issued me a notice as his accounting officer to provide the next of kin or
have the account confisicated within the next twenty one official working
days.
Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating there relatives for over 4 years
now I seek your consent to present you as NEXT OF KIN of the deceased,since
you have the same surname so that the proceeds of this account valued at
$9.5 Million Dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share the
money.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS.
Benson Dickson
Email:benson5@myway.com
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