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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: "Hafiz Umar" <hafiz_umar@msn.com>
Reply-To: hafiz_umar@myway.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:09:38 +0000
Subject: attention,
attention,
I am Mr. Hafiz Umar, an Account officer to a deceased expatriate
contractor (Eng.Arthur Holiday) who used to work with Zenith
Oil and Gas Company here in Nigeria before his sudden death.
On the December 26th 2003, my client and his entire family died in a
plane crash in cotonou, Benin Republic. You will read more stories
about the crash on visiting this
website:Www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
Since then I have made several enquires to the embassy to locate any of
my clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family,
hence I contacted you.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and property
left behind by my late client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit is lodged.
Particularly, the bank where the deceased had an account valued at about
10.2
Million-Dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 3 years
now,I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin so that we can
share the money.65% for me and 30% for you, while 5% will be used to offset
all the expenses incurred in the course of this transaction including tax.
Therefore, if you are interested to execute this deal with me, kindly
forward to me your names, private telephone/fax numbers and your
contact address in full to enable me file an application in your favour to
the bank where my late client deposited his money.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Honestly, it took me time to summon up the courage to Email this letter
to you because of the distrust in the world today, but I plead with you to
use the highest confidentiality you may muster to treat this proposal.
Please, I do not want you to disregard this mail, if you do not want to
assist me on this venture, please kindly help me by deleting this mail
from your mailbox because of the nature of confidentiality attached to
the claim.
However,if you are interested to assist me, please get in touch with me
via MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS: (hafiz_umar@myway.com) for more
information to enable us discuss further.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Hafiz Umar.
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