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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: "Mr Henry Okoye" <mr_okoye1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_okoye@box.az
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:23:31 +0000
Subject: Regards
Dear...
Greetings, I am Mr.Henry Okoye the Account Manager of Late Mr. Morris
Thompson in Standard Trust Bank Regional Office in Victoria island, here in
Lagos. However I got your contact through the International web directory.I
decided to contact you by email because I feel that it is more secured and
private. Recently we discovered a Dormant Account with a huge amount of
Money Valued USD35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Dollars only)that belongs
to one of our late Customer who died in a plane crash .During our
investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very
huge sum of money belonging to Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska, 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 news about
the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
The fund has been dormant in his account With this Bank without any claim of
the funds in our custody
either from his family or relation before our discovery of this development.
The Banking law here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed for
five years, it will be forfeited to the Bank treasury as an unclaimed
bill.It is only a foreigner that can stand as a next of kin and It is upon
this discovery that I decided to contact you to collaborate with you to pull
out this dormant fund. In order to avert this negative development, I on
behalf of my trusted colleagues now seek your permission to have you stand
in as next of kin to Our late Customer so that the fund will be released and
paid into your account as the beneficiary´s next of kin now that the bank is
still expecting a next of kin or relative of the deceased ,Late Mr. Morris
Thompson. In fact we could have done this deal alone but because of our
position in this country as civil servants, we are not allowed to operate a
foreign account and that would eventually raise an eye brow on our side
during the time of transfer since we still work in this bank, this is the
actual reason why we required a second party or fellow who will assist us
forward claims as the next of kin and also provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this fund, even
an empty a/c can also serve for this purpose. On smooth conclusion of this
transaction, you will be entitled to 40% as gratification for your assisting
us, and the remaining 60% will be for me and my partners. What I want from
you is for you to act as the deceased next of kin. I have in my possession,
all the necessary Documents to successfully accomplish the operation. Bear
in mind that this proposal is 100% risk free. Further Information will be
given to you as soon as I receive your positive response. I suggest you get
back to me as soon as possible stating your wish. Find in the attachment of
my Family Picture, to proof who I am.
Regards,
Mr.Henry Okoye
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