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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: "steven parker" <steven_park@stevenzone.net>
Reply-To: stevenparker5@yahoo.ie
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:16:00 +0000
Subject: Need Your Reply
Dear Sir/ MAdam,
Do not be surprised about receiving this confidential proposal from somebody
you do not know. It is as a result of the urgency and nature of the
business that made me contact you in this manner. I am Mr. Steven Parker,
an attorney from Durban, South Africa and a personal attorney to late Mr.
John Cuthbertson, (hereinafter referred to as my “client”) an expatriate and
an oil/mining contractor who used to work in my country back in Africa as an
Engineering Consultant with South African mining Corporation.
On the 31st of January 2000, my client died from an air crash aboard Alaska
Airline flight 261 that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31,
2000.(http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/index.html).
My client used to be a close friend of my late father who also died four
years ago. Shortly, before my client’s death, he had instructed me to
prepare his WILL but without a named beneficiary yet. He had already signed
the WILL and was contemplating on making his pet dog the beneficiary since
he had no wife nor children before he died from the air crash. Since that
unfortunate incident, I have made several enquiries to locate any of my
client's relatives to facilitate repatriation of his estate from Africa.
My efforts up till date proved unsuccessful. His personal house in the
capital city Pretoria has already been confiscated by the government.
The reason for contacting you is to assist me urgently in repatriating the
sum of Twenty five million six hundred and U.S. Dollars (US$25,600,000) left
behind by my client before his death. This amount of money is kept in safe
custody with a security/finance company operating between Africa and Europe.
The security company has issued me a notice to provide the next-of- kin
of my client or have the money declared unserviceable and returned to the
South African government. I cannot claim this money myself because of my
position as the Attorney to the deceased and the Security company is aware
of this situation.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives for five
years now, I seek your consent for a confidential co-operation with me so
that I can present you as the next-of-kin to my client – Mr. John
Cuthbertson for the money to be paid to you as the beneficiary. Note that
this transaction is simple and risk free because I will provide you with
expert legal services, documentations and transaction codes that will
guarantee the successful execution of this deal with the security/finance
company. All I require is your honesty and serious co-operation to enable
us see the deal through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
I wish to point out that after the claims, I would want 20% of this money to
be shared among charity organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared
equally between us. You will agree with me that It is a better judgement for
us to claim this money and put into profitable/peaceful use than allowing it
to be confiscated and divided amongst the corrupt government in South
Africa. If you are capable of handling this transaction, please reply via
my email address: steven_parker1@yahoo.ie with your full names and
telephone number to enable us discuss and proceed accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Steven Parker.
Email: steven_parker1@yahoo.ie
Solicitor.
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