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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: "Michael Wesaon" <michael_wesaon@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:52:20 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN.
FROM MR MICHAEL WESTON.
INVESTMENT BANK
AND TRUSTED COMPANY PLC .
LAGOS NIGERIA .
Dear friend,
I am Mr Michael Weston, INVESTMENT BANK AND TRUSTED COMANY PLC,
LAGOS.NIGERIA. I am the Operations Officer, BILL AND EXCHANGE of THE FOREIGN
REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF INVESTMENT BANK AND TRUSTED COMPANY
LTD.,LAGOS.NIGERIA. I am writing to you, following the impressive
information about your profile through the Website,and I believe in your
capability and reliability to champion this opportunity. In my department,
we discovered an abandoned sum of 18 million US dollars (eighteen million US
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family in September,1997 in a plane crash. Since we
got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to
come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless some body
applies for it as next of Kin or relative to the deceased as indicated in
our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin or relation died with him in the accident leaving
nobody behind to claim the money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and other officials in my department now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We
agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during this transaction and 55 % would be for me and my colleagues.
Thereafter,I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enhance the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first to the Bank as
relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your private, telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by
faxor e-mail the text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer. my private e-mail [michael_weston7000@yahoo.it ] , as soon as you
receive this letter.
I decided to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of
the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples
awarenessas we are civil servants. Note that we can conclude this operation
within ten banking days.Please keep this very confidential for obvious
security reasons. Contact me for more information, all confirmable before
you apply if you want. Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed
information which are confirmable before you can makeup your mind to
apply.If however,you are not interested,do let me know by returm maill too
as I will not contact anybody else until I hear from you.please reply this
proposal through my private mailbox.
May God be with you.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Michael Weston.
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