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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: "MICHEAL EZE" <micheze1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:33:34 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME
FROM THE DESK OF MICHEAL EZE.
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT DEPARTMENT,
HALLMARK BANK LTD,
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
I do recognize the surprise this urgent but confidential letter brings to
you, especially as it came from a stranger.
I am Mr. Micheal Eze, the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Hallmark
Bank, Lagos Nigeria In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$10.150m (Ten million, one hundred and fifty thousand United States
Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr.
John Brewer, who died along side his wife on the 1th November 1999 in a
Egypt air crash. Here is the CNN report of the event that carry the story
when it occur
http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/31/missing.plane.02/
Since we got the information of 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 to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guide.
Since then I have made several enquiries to his embassy to locate any of his
extended relatives. But this has also proved unsuccessful. I have contacted
you to assist in securing this money before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by my bank.
It's therefore, upon discovery that I decided to make business with you and
release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safe
keeping and subsequent disbursement, since nobody is coming for it and I
don't want this money to go back into Federal Government's account as
unclaimed bill.
Note that, it does not necessarily matter, whether you are biologically
related to the deceased or not. As you may bear with me, a next of kin could
be blood relation, business associate, friend or even a well wisher.
So, whether you are related to him or not is never a barrier to realizing
this transaction.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such an account
remains dormant or non-operational after a period of five (5) years, the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
However, attempts has been made twice by the Government Agency concerned to
confiscate this account since the expiration of the five years if not for my
intervention as the head account and audit depts. I have always told them
that the next of kin has been in
touch with us.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner. Please be honest to me.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as the next of kin to the diseased. Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you the text of application, which you
will fax to my bank.
Note that this transaction requires utmost confidentiality. And I am
assuring you that it is 100% risk free.
So you need not be afraid.
I expect a positive response from you soonest.
Best regards,
Mr. Micheal Eze.
Accounts & Audit Dept.
Hallmark Bank Ltd
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