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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Gail Champion" <cgail503@msn.com>
Reply-To: c_gail50@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:19:18 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE
Hello friend,
I am a fiduciary agent based in the United Kingdom
with a large clientele base. We had a foreign client
who we helped through our company in depositing the
sum of Ten million Great British Pounds (£
10,000,000.00) this client of ours is now deceased but
since then we have not had any body coming for the
claims as the next of kin, a situation I have
monitored closely with my position in the company.
This account has been dormant since 1999 and the
treasury department of this bank has been changing
custodian of the account for the last seven (7) years,
without a claimant, having monitored this deposit and
managed it over the years before his death, and all
effort to trace any of his next of kin or relatives
has proved abortive hence I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased, so
that we can make claim to this account.
At this stage, I need a very reliable confidential and
responsible business minded person who would assist me
in the claims of these funds without it reverting to
the authority; I know you might become apprehensive
and worried about how this will be possible.
I will need your response, in order to give you
detailed facts and figures to this account. I have
been able to contact you; based on informations I
retrieved gather from the last name search database on
the web and I will be most willing to go into
partnership with you to see this project completed in
earnest. I assure you there would be no risk to your
name or personality.
I can't disclose exclusive data at this stage because
I really have to be very sure of the person I intend
dealing with first before giving out such vital
information concerning the above.
Do kindly send your reply with your full names and
contact details for verification purposes; upon this,
I will be able to send you more detail regarding this
transaction. If I don’t hear from you in the next few
days I would assume you are not interested but please
if you are do indicate so that I can stop all further
contacts.
NOTE: I know there may be scams and junk mails flying
here and there on the Internet but certainly, this is
not one. Please do not fail to understand that in
spite of all that, opportunities of this kind still
abound. If you have ever wished or prayed for
something good to come your way, now I urge you to
take this message seriously and with an open mind. You
could never know. This may be an answer to your
prayers.
So please give it a benefit of doubt and with good
faith and trust join me and I am assuring you now that
you will never be disappointed. Please reply urgently
for further details to c_gail50@yahoo.it
I look forward to an excellent business relationship
with you
Regards,
Gail Champion
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