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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: "charles odabah" <charles_odabah@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: charles_odabah@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:26:06 +0000
Subject: Hi
Dear Confidant,
RE: TRANSFER OF ($16,000.000.00 USD}SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS).
My name is Charles Odabah, I am the operational manager in account section
incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks here in
Nigeria. I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my bank (John Cuthbertson, 70, Danville, California) who died in
an Alaska Air Plane Crash of February 24th, 2000. Please confirm from the
below Website as given.
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
(88 people (83 passengers and five crew members/ on board Alaska Airlines
Flight 261.)
There is an account opened in this bank in 1998 by this great late
INDUSTRIALIST who died without a written or oral WILL attatched to the
account. Since his death , 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 and no other person knows about this account or anything
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he
was the manager of his company.
The total amount involved is $16,000,000.00 USD. [ Sixteen million United
States Dollar ]. We wish to start the first transfer with $6,000,000.00[Six
million] and upon successful transaction without any disappointment from
your side, we shal re-apply for the transfer of the remaining balance to
your account.
I have secretly discussed this matter with the general manager of my bank
who I must involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of
the fund to any foreign bank account which
you are going to nominate.On this note, I decided to seek for a reliable
foreigner who will act as the foreign beneficiary of the fund from the
deceased by providing his/her bank account where
the fund will be transferred into for immediate investment on any viable
project as no one hascome up to be the next of kin.
The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than six
years without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government
treasury as unclaimed after this long period
of domancy. In view of this I got your contact through my personal search to
see if you can assist by providing your safe bank account for the transfer
or find a reliable person who will be capable of receiving such amount in
his or her personal account.
At the conclussion of the transfer 70% of the fund will be for us here, we
would give you 15% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity both in Africa
and in your country while the remaining 5%
will be set aside to settle expenses both parties might incure during the
transfer process.
TO PROCEED,
I would like you to send me the information of any account of your choice
where you will like this fund to be transferred into.This transaction is
totally free of risk and trouble as the fund is a legitimate fund which does
not originate from drug,money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a detailed information
about the transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
business is 100% risk and trouble free and that you should not entertain any
fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within 7 to 9
banking days, after we apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from
the deceased. I await your interest by a retrun email sygnal.Thank you.
Best Regards.
Charles Odabah (Mr.)
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