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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: "chun zheng" <chun_zheng7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: chun_zhenng7@yahoo.de
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:54:15 +0000
Subject: Re
Dear Sir,
My name is Mr. Chuka Nzekwe, i work in the credit and
accountsdepartment of African banking inco-operation,Lagos,
Nigeria. I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domicilliary
A/C number2590074169. His name is Mr Erick Board.
He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during
the reign of late General Sani Abacha. Sir,since the demise of this our
customer, Mr Erick Board , who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have
kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since
then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of
kin to the late Mr Erick Board. He had only tweenty eighy
million five hundred thousand united states dollars in his a/c and the
a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or
password of the deposit particulars.
As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the
needed information other than my very self considering my
position in the bank. Based on the reason that nobody has come
forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for your
co- operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased
to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual
sharing between myself and you.
At this point I am the only one with the information because I have
removed the deposit file from the safe. By this doing, what is
required of you is to send an application laying claims of the deposit
as next of kin to the late Mr Erick Board. I will need your full name
and address, company or residential, so that i can computerize
them to tally with next of kin column in the certificate of deposit.
Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as
the next of kin is ocassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next
of kin.
When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money
will be split between us. Trusting to hear from you, I remain
Respectfully yours,
Mr. Mr. Chuka Nzekwe
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