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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: "Toyin Edun" <toyinedun03@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:28:42 -0500
Subject: Truth of the matter
MR TOYIN AHMED EDUN.
THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,
METROPOLITAN BANK LTD
LAGOS,NIGERIA.
E-mail: toyin_edun2005@mixmail.com
Dear Friend
How are you doing with your family?I presume that all is well with you.I am
the manager of audit and accounting department at the foreign unit of our
bank.I got your contact from the international directory when i was looking
for a foreigner who will assist me to achieve a great success business that
will yeild us life success. Before i wrote you,i prayed that you will be a
honest and reliable person whom i can work with to achieve this deal of our
life.
From my section in the bank, I discovered an abandoned sum of ELEVEN MILLION
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($11.3m) that belongs to one
of our customer who died along with his entire famillies,on JULY,2000 GERMAN
CONCORDE PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] with the whole passengers aboard.The
name of the deceased man was (MR. CHRISTIAN EICH )from
England .You have to understand that i come acrossed this huge amount of
money when i was arranging the departmental customers file to submit to the
bank managementfor the annual audit of the year.Since the bank got
information about the death of the deceased man, the bank have been
expecting his next of kin to apply and claim his money because the bank
cannot release the fund unless a person from any foreign countries apply for
the transfer of the fund as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately i learnt through
investigations that all his supposed ne! xt of kin died alongside with him
at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to
you so that you will apply to the bank for the money to be release to you as
the next of kin or relation for safety and subsequent sharing since nobody
is coming for it.
For us to achieve this businesss immediately,the percentage ratio for
sharing the fund when the bank release the fund for you must be arranged.So
i accept that thirty one percent of the fund(31%) will be for you as a
foreigner for the provision of any bank account where the bank will transfer
the money into including other of your particiaption during the process of
the
transfer,Sixty percent (60%) will be for me as the person who explores the
business,Four percent of the fund (4%) will be for the expenses which may
come forth during the transfer of the fund, while 5% will be shared to the
helpless peoples around us in the world such as ,motherless babies,charity
homes,disable peoples and so on. Thereafter I will visit your country for
sharing the
money according to the percentages indicated above.So for the immediate
transfer of this fund into your bank account as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as the only existening next of kin to the deceased
customer by indicating in the application the bank account formation where
you
will request the bank to transfer the fund into.So if you accept to
help me in other to achieve this great business,i will send to you through
email or by fax an application form of claim which you will fill with your
account information and send to the bank for the transaction to start
immediately.
Please i would like you to know the following information.(1.) This
business is HUNDRED PERCENT RISK FREE.(2.)You will not face any questions
because the form application will bear the brief information of the deceased
which the bank may like to know.(3.) If you will follow my instruction and
directives,this transaction will be completed with a short of time.(4.)You
should keep this business CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET untill the fund get
transfered into your account.
Finally,call or contact me through this my email:
toyin_edun2005@mixmail.com or through my private telephone number so that we
will proceed with this business immediately.
My regards to you and your family.
Yours faithfully,
MR TOYIN AHMED EDUN
N.B.In other for you to believe me honestly try and go through this
wedsite)before you start with me. Below is the website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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