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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: Dr Amina Williams <amina_williams_dr@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:08:06 +0100 (BST)
Subject: TRANSFER OF ($21,500.000.00 USD) URGENT REPLY
From: DR AMINA WILLIAMS phd
Private Emails: dr_amina_williams@yahoo.com, amina_williams_dr@yahoo.co.uk
TRANSFER OF ($21,500.000.00 USD)
TWENTY ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
Dear Friend,
IN ORDER TO TRANSFER ($21,500.000.00 USD)
TWENTY ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
from FIRST OAK COMMERCIAL BANK.
I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either
an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c
can also serve for this purpose.
I am DR(MRS) AMINA WILLIAMS.the personal accountant General of FIRST OAK COMMERCIAL BANK PLC. during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files, from the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. CARL JOE, a
foreigner, and an industrialist, and he died, since
28 DEC 2003 and no other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that JOHN CARL, until his death he was the manager
of Diamond Safari [pty]. SOUTH AFRICA.
We will start the first transfer with sixteen million dollars [$16,000.000] upon successful transaction
without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount
to your account,
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money cannot be approved to a local person here, but
can only be approved to any foreigner with valid
information about Mr.CARL JOE who is a foreigner
too.
However, I am revealing this to you with believe in
God that you will never let me down when the money
enters your A/C. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used
for the deposit I need your full understanding and co-operation to make this work fine because the management of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who
has correct information of this account, which I will
give to you, upon your positive response. Two of us
will fly to your country at least two days ahead of
the money going into the account.
I will use my position and influence to obtain all
legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance from the
relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments
for easy and smooth transfer of the fund into your
account without question.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
40% of the total amount, 55% will be for me, while 5%
will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transferring this money.
I am looking forward to hear from you.
Yours truly
DR AMINA WILLIAMS phd
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