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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: "Emmanuel Briggs" <ebriggs@mailconnections.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:06:01 +0000
Subject: SEEKING FOR PARTNERSHIP
HSBC
Our Reference: 20 / 725 / NW
SUBJECT: SEEKING FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR INHERITANCE FUND OF TWO MILLION THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUND STERLING.
Attn:
Dearest Friend,
My name is Mr. Emmanuel Briggs I am a staff of HSBC BANK PLC in UNITED
KINGDOM - LONDON. I work in the operations dept where I serve as account
officer to numerous customers. I am contacting you of a business transfer,
of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the
success of this transition would be provided, and all will be well at the
end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.
The deceased person who died Mr Abdou Elzanaty died in an air crash along
with his wife on the 31st
October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 1990 with other passengers on board was
an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals
Corporation. You can confirm his death from the
BBC WORLD NEWS published Website below.
WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because
They all died in the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest
in peace). 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, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased,
As all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary
to the funds 2,300 000 00 GBP (Two million three hundred thousand Great
British pound sterling) which will be released in your favor as the next of
kin. Because after six years the money will be called back to the bank
Treasury as unclaimed bills and the money will be shared amongst the
directors of the bank.
So it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as
the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank
directors to share this money among them selves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order
of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
the receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual benefit, endeavor by
furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1,Your Full Names and Address
2,Your Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers
3,The Full Details of your Bank and Address
4,A copy of your recent picture or passport
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be
compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final conclusion of this
project for your assistance, while we will keep aside 5% for expenses that
may occurre in the process of this transaction from both parties, which will
be refunded at the end of the transaction, the balance 60% shall be for me
for investment purposes, because I intend to retire after the conclusion of
this transaction and relocate to your country of residence.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately via this my most confidential email
(bemmanuel_hsbcplc@omnimail.sm). Do not take undue Advantage of the trust I
have bestowed in you.
I await your positive response and God bless you.
Yours truly,
Mr. Emmanuel Briggs
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