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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: "issah garba" <issahgarba@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:14:00 +0000
Subject: PLEASE REPLY SOON
MR.ISSAH GARBA
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
EMAIL:issahgarba_14@mail2world.com
Courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire
to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficiary and risk free
transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be
precise.I am MR. ISSAH GARBA Senior manager of ABSA BANK Limited
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum
of US$ 27 Million(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in an account
that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire family
in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash. Since we got information
about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
procedures, but unfortunately to no avail and nobody has come forward to
claim the money.
Therefore, upon this discovery that I and other two officials in my
department now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you,
hence my contacting you. We want you to purportedly present your good self
as the next of kin or relation of the deceased so that we can release the
fund (money) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and again we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bill .The banking law and procedures herein
stipulates that any accounts abandoned or dormant for a period of some years
is subject to be closed and all money contained therein will be forfeited to
the government treasury account. Now it is being speculated that the above
sum will be transferred into government treasury account as unclaimed fund
on or before November 2005. The reason for you to present your good self as
the next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner.
Mode of Sharing After the successful completion of the transfer is as
follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise,
we have agreed to give you Thirty (30%) of the total sum, and 10% has been
set aside for the expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the
process of this transaction and the remaining 60% shall be for my colleagues
and I in support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business.After
your reply, you will be advised on the next step afterwards. I quite believe
that you will protect our interest by keeping this business top secret and
confidential. Your interest will be equally protected, as we must maintain
maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from you on this
Email:issahgarba_14@mail2world.com Count on your earliest reply.
Thanks
Yours Faithfully
MR. ISSAH GARBA
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