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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: "Mathew Perry" <perrymathew@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:58:57 -0400
Subject: Important email for you.
For your kind attention,
I am Mathew Perry,an accountant in i well known bank in the United Kingdom, i am in the Foreign Exchange and Treasury Bills Department.
In my department we discovered in a dormant account an abandoned sum of $5.5m (five million Five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to a late customer MR. MORRISON THOMSON who died in a plane crash on Alaska Airlines flight 261 returning from a vacation in Mexico killing all on board.you can read more on the site below:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
My proposal to you is to release the money to you as the next of kin or Business Partner to the desease for safety and subsequent. Since the bank got information about 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 or relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
But unfortunately, we learnt that Morris died alongside with his Next Of kin, his wife, Thelma, and his daughter Sheryl, who passed on with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that i and collegue who controls WILLED-FUND DOCUMENTS/DISKETTE decided to place you as the Next Of kin to the deceased.
When replying to this email, kindly send your direct telephone number for further discussion.
Honesty and Trust is our watchward,and for your assistance,we have
humbly marped out 30% to you for providing an account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured on both side during the business and 60% will be for us.
Thereafter, I and my Partner will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated above. I will be waiting for ur urgent response.
Best Regards.
Mathew Perry.
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