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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: "pst deiver" <pst_deliver@msn.com>
Reply-To: mikeassociate01@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:08:03 +0000
Subject: LETS WORK TOGETHER
FROM THE DESK OF MR MIKE JOHNSON
DEAR SIR,
I am MR Mike Johnson an account officer with ECO BANK
PLC . I am writing following an opportunity in my
office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$3 million (Three million united states dollars ) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Late Glenn Hatleberg an American oil
engineer with SUMMIT OIL SERVICES LTD who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000, including his wife. You shall read more about
the crash on visiting this site:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/index.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 bankingguidelines.Unfortunately I learnt that
his supposed next of kin being his wife [Barbara
Hatleberg]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 if such money remained after five
years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds. We agreed that 30% 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 thismoney 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 for easy
communication between us.
Best Regards,
MR MIKE JOHNSON.
234-1-7769162
mikeassociate01@yahoo.co.in
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