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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: "NATWEST BANK" <natwestbank7@msn.com>
Reply-To: evanstimothy_2005@myway.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:05:27 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN
>From Mr. Evans Timothy.
Naewest Bank London,
123 Victoria St,
London SW1E6DE.
Private e-mail:evanstimothy_2005@myway.com.
Dear Sir,
I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. I am writing following an oppurtunity
in my office 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 nfortunately lost his life
in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the
crash on visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
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 such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred 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.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all
necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please in your response include your telephone number so that i can give you
a call to explain better.
Best regards
Mr. Evans Timothy.
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