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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: "patrick fortune" <patrickfortune_01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: patrickfortunes_01@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:22:01 +0000
Subject: Reply Please
My name is Patrick Fortune, 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 £7.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Seven million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately 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 themoney 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
numberfor easy communication between us.
You can also call me on: 44 7040128819
Best regards
Mr. Patrick Fortune
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