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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: "Dr Adam Williams" <awilliams10000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: awilliamsprivate30@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:18:47 +0200
Subject: Can I Trust You?
15, Rugby Street,
Circular Road, London
CV7 4PG, United Kingdom
Hello,
I know that this mail will come to you out of the blue
as a total surprise. Well, I have a business proposal
which I know might interest you. I believe that you
would be in a position to assist me in my bid to
transfer the sum of ( 18.5M.) Eighteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand British Pounds into a foreign bank
account. So study the following account carefully and
reply urgently.
I am Dr Adam Williams, an Auditor of a bank here in London.
During the course of our auditing, I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1999
and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account.
After a lot of investigation I discovered that the
owner of the bank account died without a beneficiary.
The money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of the
account is Mr. Magnus Smith, a foreigner. He died
since 2000 and the bank account has no other
beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody
knows about this account or anything concerning it. So
I want to grab this opportunity, as it is no harm to
nobody.
I am here soliciting for your assistance as a
foreigner because the money cannot be approved to
anybody here. But It can be approved to a foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license
and foreign bank account because the money at sake is
in British Pound sterling and the former owner of the
account is a foreigner. The management must approve
this payment to you if you have the correct
information of this account, which I will give to you,
upon your positive response and once I am convinced
that you are capable and will meet up with instruction
of key bank official who is deeply involved with me in
this project.
With my influence and the position of the bank
officials, we can transfer this money to any
foreigner s reliable account, which you can provide
with assurance that this money will be intact pending
our physical arrival at your end for sharing. Note
that an existing foreign bank account or an empty
account can serve to receive this money. The banks
official will destroy all documents of the transaction
immediately this money is into your nominated bank
account.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
20% of the total amount, 75% will be for the bank
official and I, while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the course of this
transaction.
May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take. Send also your private
phone and fax number including the full details of the
bank account to used for the deposit.
Best regards.
Dr Adam Williams.
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