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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: "Daniel Aku" <daniel_aku1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: daku20055@free.net.nz
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:16:47 +0000
Subject: Next of kin.
Dear Friend,
I am Barr. Daniel Aku (SAN) personal attorney to Mr. Engr. John Philip, a
national of your country, who used to work with Zenon Oil Company here in
Nigeria herein after, shall be referred to as my client. My client with his
entire family (The wife and Children) were involved in the explosion in
Lagos,Nigeria, Sunday, 2 February, 2003, 18:50 GMT which, claimed many lives
and property. Unfortunately, my client and the family lost their lives in
that disaster that needed not to have happened. Since then I have made
several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet,
to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client prior to his death befor e they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits
were lodged and where the deceased had an account valued at about US$14.5
Million dollars.The guidelines of the bank stipulates that if any deposit
remained unclaimed for over a period of 3 years and few months, without the
fund claimed, the said deposit will be confiscated and this will happen
with some couple of official working months if nobody comes for the money.
The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over one year now, I seek your consent as the next of kin to
the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$14.5 million
dollars can be paid to you.
I have all the necessary official and legal documents that can be used to
back up your claim. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable me
as the le gal attorney to the deceased in seeing that you receive your
inheritance fund. I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to
protect you from any breach of the law.
See the 2 website of the bomb explosion below: -
http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/index_txt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
I Implore you to get back to me via my alternative email address
:(daku20055@free.net.nz ) Upon your acceptance to claim the inheritance
fund.
Looking forward to hear from you soonest.
With best regards,
Barr. Daniel Aku
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