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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: "BARRISTER DOUGLAS" <barristerdc18@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: barristerdc@sify.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:23:05 -0700
Subject: CLIAM
Request for Business Relationship
To whom it may concern
My name is Barrister Douglas Chibu, a solicitor and personal lawyer to (late)
Mr Louise Herbert, who died in a plane crash (Ethiopian airline 961) with
other passengers abroad.Since the death of my client, I personally have watched
with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as
no one has come to claim his funds of us$15.5m (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which he deposited before his sudden death.On
this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as the next of kin
as no one has come up to be the next of kin. In view of this I am contacting
you to acts as the beneficiary to enable us claim this funds.The request
of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that my client was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as the next of
kin to a foreigner.I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign
partner in respect of providing a new bank account or we can use your old
account information, while the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit
your country for disbursement and invest my share in a lucrative business
in your country. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this
fund to your account as arranged, you shall provide your private telephone
number, and fax number for easy communication and location where the money
will be remitted. Upon the receipt of your reply we shall commence immediately.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement
has been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon
as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you.
Your respectfully,
Barrister Douglas Chibu.
___________________________________________________________
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