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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: "MRS SALAMY DAKO" <mrssalamydako@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrssalamydako@myway.com
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:49:18 -0700
Subject: RE:PROPOSITION
FROM THE DESK OF:
ACCOUNTS & AUDIT DEPARTMENT
UNION BANK PLC,
LAGOS, NIGERIA
Dear Sir,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Unoin Bank PLC, Lagos. I
decided to contact you after a careful thought and conviction that you are
capable of handling this business transaction which is explained below;
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten
million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 1998 in
a 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 applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury
as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after six years, the money may be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Nigerian be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement accordingto the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted . Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the
application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
I expect that you contact at me as soon as you receive this letter.
Hoping to hear from you immediately.
Mrs Salamy Dako
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Unoin Bank PLC.
REPLY ME TO:mrssalamydako@myway.com
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