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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: "nelson donell" <nelsondonell0@msn.com>
Reply-To: nelsondonell@list.ru
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:27:27 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
From the desk of:
Mr.Nelson Donell
Cometh International Bank Plc.
Lagos Nigeria.
Emailnelsondonel@aemail4u.com)
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Nelson Donell the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department Of The Cometh International Bank Plc, Lagos Branch. I
got your contact from the world trade center (WTC) Regional office in Lagos,
Nigeria. Although the details of my intention was not made known to them.
Actually, I listed your name amongst four other names & prayed over them &
decided to contact you directly. I have a very urgent & confidential
Business Proposition for you & for our overall mutual interest. On the 11th
of September 2001, our Customer, a Mexican National, late Engr. Carlos
Montoya, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, deposited ,a valued amount of US$9 Million in my branch.Upon
maturity, i sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but got no
reply. After a month we sent a reminder, & finally we discovered from his
contract employers NNPC, that late Engr. Carlos Montoya until his death Four
years ago in a ghastly terrorist atta! ck to American Airlines Flight 11,
from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the
North Tower of the World Trade Centre (WTC) with 86 people on board.
All occupants of the Aero plane unfortunately lost their lives. On further
investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL & all attempts to
trace his Next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation
& discovered that late Engr. Carlos Montoya did not declare any Next of kin
in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork. This
sum US$9Million is still floating in the bank and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come
forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 7
years, the money will revert to the Ownership of the Nigerian Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that i will
like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of late Engr. Carlos
Montoya. This is simple. All I require is your honest and 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. I will want you to send to me on your return email the following
information for the transfer in your favor.
1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone and fax numbers we will be communicating to each
other and as soon as I received I will definitely call you.
LetÁ s consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus;
1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 60% of the transferable Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 30% of the transferable Fund.
3. The remaining 10% will be use as Tax and other necessary expense
that will be incur as a result of transferring the Fund.
Most importantly, CONFIDENTAILITY as what I saw as the life wire to the
success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be emulated between you
and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you will not in anyway
expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends,
Colleagues and Co-Workers to enumerate a fee. With the act of emulating
CONFIDENTIALITY I tell you that the sky will be our limit as soon as this
Fund is transferred in our favor as you the Beneficiary of the Fund. I will
also want you to send your reply to this email
(nelsondonel@aemail4u.com) as soon as you get this mail to enable us discuss
on the modalities and
processes for success of this transaction.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding.
I wait for your kind response. Remain blessed.
Mr.Nelson Donell.
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