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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: "MR MIKE EKE" <dr_zakaka2@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrmike_eke@excite.com
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:09:51 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT CO-OPERATION NEEDED !!!
>From The Desk Of : Mr Mike Eke,
Accountant Intercontinental Bank
Of Nigeria Plc.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Email : mrmike_eke@excite.com
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr Mike Eke, An Accountant with Intercontinental Bank Of Nigeria Plc, I
am writing following an oppurtunity in my Department that will be of imense
benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £10.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Ten million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his
wife and only daughter.
View the website below for more details:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to make business
with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of
the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
after few years, the money will be transfered into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
If this proposal satisfies you, please contact me through my personal Email
(mrmike_eke@excite.com), with the following important information.Your
Personal Phone / Fax Numbers for easy communication and Your Bank Account
.This transaction will last for 14 working days from the time we submit the
required information,as all modalities concerning this transaction have been
worked out and it is completely risk free.
Please be informed that this subject is classified sensitive. Therefore
treat the transaction with utmost confidentiality and urgency.
Best regards
Mr Mike Eke.
Accountant Intercontinental Bank
Of Nigeria Plc.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Email : mrmike_eke@excite.com
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