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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: "isikaku duru" <isikakuduru2@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:04:10 +0100
Subject: Dear Tracy,
Dr Frank Marcus
Office of Auditor General,
Southwark Credit Union,
18 Pilgrimage Street, London , SE1 4LL
Dear Tracy,
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
On May 20, 1999, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH
RUBBER CORPORATION Mr. Andy Tracy. Made a numbered time(Fixed deposit) for
24 calendar months, valued atUS$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Us dollars only)
in this bank.
Upon maturity in 2001, I sent a routine notificationto his forwarding
address but got no reply. After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we
discoveredfrom his contract employers,the British Rubbercorporation that Mr.
Andy Tracy died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during
one of his trips to his country Iraq.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL,
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I thereforemade further investigation and discovered that Mr. Andy Tracy did
not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his Deposit paperwork.
This sum of US$10,000,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 1999 as
all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British law at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money
will revertto the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund and the six years is the end of September 2005.
Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner
to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so
that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully
worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate
any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I are assuring you that the
business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me
and for investment purpose, as I will leave London by the end of the year.
The sharing of the funds will be based According to agreement within you and
me. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the
necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any
conflict.
If this proposal is acceptable by you,do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you.
Kindly get back to me through my private email:frmarcus@box.az
Regards.
Dr. Frank Marcus
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