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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: "jorge Benson" <jorgebenson77@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jorgebenson112@myway.com
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:47:44 -0700
Subject: Re:Reply
Dear Friend,
PLEASE TREAT AS ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENTIAL
My name is Jorge Benson, I am one of the Senior Managers in the bank I work
for (Union Bank, Nigeria PLC) and I work under the Director of Foreign
Exchange Operations (International Remittance).
I am contacting you presently because I need your urgent assistance in a
business transaction that will be of immense benefit to both of us. I have
the immediate need to transfer some money that has long been declared
"UNCLAIMED" by the chairman and some members of the board of directors of
our bank. The money is the closing balance of one of our best customers
ever, Late Engr.ASWARD FORSTER,I was his personal account officer just
before he died in the ADC plane crash of 1996 in Nigeria. Engr. ASWARD
FORSTER an American citizen was a contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, he supplied and installed equipment and his company Richland
Contractors completed some of the best construction contracts in the
country. His closing balance in the bank, Union Bank of Nigeria PLC
(US$18.5Million) has been tagged unclaimed because no relative of
Engr.ASWARD has come forward to make a statement of claim. We have no
knowledge of a next of kin.
At this point I trust you can picture what the situation is like. We have
strong proof that the chairman and the board of directors will keep most of
the money for themselves and donate the remainder to a discredited military
trust here in Nigeria. This invariably is anattempt to infuse more money
into the acquisition of military equipment (arms and ammunition) for use in
an already prostrate Africa. This of course, is senseless, hence my mission.
My colleagues and my self have made several attempts at locating persons
that could be remotely related to Engr. ASWARD and we have been doing this
for about 4 years now. Right now I am almost alone in this enterprise and I
have presently decided on moving the money to a foreign account. I am hereby
soliciting your assistance and I will be very grateful if you will be
willing to help in this regard. We have access to most of what it will take
to transfer the money. The only thing we do not have is a safe account. We
will provide you with answers to all the security questions, which you will
have to answer to move the process towards completion. We will also provide
you answers to questions that only a person related to him will know. You
may however not need to make any appearance, every thing will be concluded
on phone and fax between you and the bank [UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC, LAGOS]
for your participation you will get 15%, 5% has been earmarked for the
expenses that may be incurred on both ends. 80% shall be for my colleague
and I. I make this proposal in trust and in good faith.
therefore, if you are interested and you agree to assist me then contact me
immediately , and send your banking details phone and fax number,there is a
lot more to talk about. If you are not interested, then, please, do get rid
of this email and please forgive me if this message has upset you in any
way.
Thank you and best regards.
Jorge Benson
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