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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: "SUTARJO JOKO" <sjoko@teamutb-direct.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:25:13 +0000
Subject: Trusting to hear from you
REQUEST
FROM THE DESK OF JOKO
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
UNIVERSAL TRUST BANKING(UTB)
URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION
I am the manager at the auditing and accounting
department of Universal Trust banking (UTB) here in
United Kingdom In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$33.5m dollars ( US
dollars) in an account that belonging to one of our
foreign customer Mr.Manfred Cheng from hong kong.Who
died along with his entire family in Monday,31 July,
2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please visit this
site that is one of the evidence the directors brought
in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of
kin or relation 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 and release the
money to you as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money
to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The
banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money
will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed
fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner from Canada. I agree that
40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foriegn account ,20% will be set aside
for expenses incurred during the business and 40%
would be for
me Thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply
first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the
deceased with a text of
application that i will send to you,so i will like you
to send to me your private telephone and fax number
for easy and effective communication and location
where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application . I will not fail
to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as
all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as
you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immediately.
Regards,
Yours Faithfully,
JOKO
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