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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. James Duncan" <jamesduncan@sino.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jamesduncan1@sino.net
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:19:41 +0100
Subject: From: Mr James Duncan
Greetings,
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone a
pprehensive and worried, but I assure you that all is well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this Transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transaction of this nature. Let me
start by first introducing myself properly. I am senior manager with the (S.S.B BANK Plc), Accra Ghana I came to
know of you in my private search for a reliable and a reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves
maximum confidence.
PROPOSITION: A foreigner, Late engineer Jacques Monroe, an oil merchant/contractor with the Government of Ghana, until his
death in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at S.S.B.BANK Plc Accra, and had a closing balance as at the end of march, 2002
worth USD$23.5 million (Twenty three million, Five Hundred Thousand United State dollars) Which the bank now expect a next of kin
to claim as beneficiary. Valuable effort are being made by the BANK to get in touch with any of the Monroe`s family or relatives but there has
been no success. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of the late Engr. Jacques Monroe next of kin
(he had no children that is known to us.) The management under the influence of our chairman and member of the board of Director,
that an arrangement has been made for the funds to be declared =93UNCLAIMABLE=94 and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund
for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development,
some of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the late Engr Jacques Monroe so that
the funds USD$23.5million would be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary next of kin. All document and proves to enable
you get this fund will be carefully worked out by me .
We have secure from the probate an order to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring you of a
100% risk free involvement. We agreed that, funds would be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account.
If this proposal is accepted by you. Please do not take advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you and your company,
please kindly forward to me immediately your most confidential telephone, fax number, and particulars so that I can
apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor.
Thanks in advance for your anticipated cooperation.
Thanks,
Yours faithfully,
Mr. James Duncan.
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