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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: "martins jack" <martins_jack01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: martinsjack77@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:39:22 +0000
Subject: Immense Benefit Get Back To Me
Dear Sir/Madam
Firstly, my apologies for this intrusion on your privacy
I am DR MARTINS JEGA an account officer with ECO BANK PLC .
I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be
of immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $30 million (Thirty million united states dollars )in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Ziya
Bazhayev
a Russian big time Oil dealer with SUMMIT OIL SERVICES LTD who
unfortunately lost his life in the Yak-40jetliner on March 9, 2000.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/03/09/russia.crash.04/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his wife
[Barbara Bazhayev] died along with him in the planecrash leaving nobody
with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided
to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin
or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and we don,t want this money to go back into
Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country
for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated aboveonce
this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is
our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has beenfinalised. We will discuss much in details when I
do receive your response. Please in your response include your telephone
number for easy communication between us.
Best Regards
DR MARTINS JEGA.
martinsjack77@yahoo.com
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