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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: "Frank Uzoh" <frank_uzoh01@msn.com>
Reply-To: frank_uzoh02@sify.com
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:07:12 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY.
Dear Friend,
My name is Mr.Frank Uzoh, personal assistant to Director International
Remittance Department Union Bank of Nigeria plc.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank (Ms. Jane Allen, of
America) who perished in the plane crash of 31 October 1999[with Egyptian
airline 990] with other passengers aboard.
Since the demise of Ms. Jane Allen, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim her funds of US$ 30 M, (Thirty Million United States Dollars)
has been with our bank here for a very long time. On this note I decided to
seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin, as no one has come
up to put claim as the next of kin to this funds and the banking ethics here
does not allow such money to stay more than six years, because after six
years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
In view of this I got your contact through my country's foreign trade
mission after I was convinced in my mind that your name/company could be
used as the next of kin to this claim.
The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as
the next of kin to a foreigner. I agreed that 30% of this money will be for
you as a foreign partner in respect of providing an account while 10% will
take of any expenses that might be incurred in the process of succeeding the
transfer and the rest will be for me.
Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement as i am almost due for
retirement. Upon the receipt of your acceptance, I will send you by fax or
e-mail a draft application of claim, which you will send to the bank as the
next of kin and the next step to take. i will not fail to bring to your
notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any fear as the whole required arrangement has been perfected for the
transfer.
Regards,
Mr.Frank Uzoh.
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