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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: "james tunde" <james@jamesholdingsltd.com>
Reply-To: tjholdingslimited@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:13:29 +0000
Subject: How are you today?
I Mr.James Tunde am a member of staff of one of the leading Bank here in
Nigeria-West Africa.I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that
will be of imense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of ($1.5 Million Dollar) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately
lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read
more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we our bank have been expecting
his next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because the
Bank cannot release the funds 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 only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash 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 do 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. We agreed that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, while the ballance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit
your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated
above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and
trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note that,this transaction is confidential,risk free and 100% legal. As soon
as you receive this mail you should contact me by a return mail if you are
willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not interested, I
sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am
very careful on truncating my banking career should you mention this to
someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this regard. Please note that all
necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Best regards
Mr James Tunde.
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