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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: "melvin thambo" <melvinthambo@nedbanksa.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:46:58 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/MADAM
Dear Sir/MADAM
Mr.Melvin Thambo.
Johannesburg - South Africa.
Private Email:melvin_nedbanksa@yahoo.com
Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire
to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free
transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise,
I am Mr Melvin Thambo the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign
Exchange/Remittance Department of NEDBANK South Africa. In my department, we
discovered an abandoned sum of US$12,524,000.00 (Twelve Million, Five
Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our customers named Bunten,Wendy who died in a Korean Air
Flight 801 August 6th 1997.you can see by yourself
:U.Shttp://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/ 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 somebody
applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has come
forward to claim the money .
Therefore, upon this discovery I now decide to establish a cordial business
relationship with you, hence my contacting you. We want you to purportedly
present your good self as the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so
that we can prepare documentations and release the funds (US$12.524 Million)
into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and again we do not want the funds to go into the Governments
account as "Unclaimed Bill".
The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned
or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all
money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury
Account.The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in
occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.
Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as
follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, we
have agreed to give you twenty five (25%) of the total sum, and 5% has been
set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the
process of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall be for my colleagues
and I. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After
you reply, you will be advised on the next step forward.
I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in
order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from
you on the above numbers as I count on your earliest response or you can
email me directly on :melvin_nedbanksa@yahoo.com
Yours truly,
Mr.Melvin Thambo.
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