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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: "tobe adeboye" <tobeadeboye3@tobeadeboye.com>
Reply-To: drtobe_adeboye2005@myway.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:52:54 +0000
Subject: Dr.Tobe Adeboye
Dr.Tobe Adeboye
United Bank For Africa,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
Attn:
I am Dr.Tobe Adeboye,Branch Manager with United Bank For Africa,ILupeju
Branch, Lagos, Nigeria.I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.
On January 6,1998 a Foreign Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian
Railway Corporation Mr. Abbas Raymond by name made a numbered time Fixed
Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$15.6M (Fifteen Million, Six
Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers Nigerian Railway Corporation that Mr. Abbas Raymond died from an
automobile accident.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Mr. Abbas Raymond did not
declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including
his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$15.6M has been
carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial and Security Company in Europe
for safekeeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to the Law of my
country, at the expiration of 7 years the money will revert to the ownership
of the State (Government) if nobody applies to claim the fund.This prompted
i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the next of kin of our late client
thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $15.6 million U.S
Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security Company in Europe.I
contacted you because it is against our code ofethics to own and operate
foreign accounts and yourassistance would be needed to claim the money in
the Financial and Security Company in Europe.
I have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sumwould be for you if you
agree to take part in thisprofitable transaction,65% for me while the
remaining 10% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred
during the course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has been
claimed and lodged in your account. In the event that you are genunely
interested in the transaction, the following information would be needed
from you to expedite action.
1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers
where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entails
constant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free ofrisks as all modalities has
been perfected to ensurethe hitch free succesof the transaction.If you are
interested, send the requested information via my private email box() as
soon as possible so that we can proceedand after sending it urgently.
Best Regards,
Dr.Tobe Adeboye
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