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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: "Richard Gnassingbe" <richardgnassingbe@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: richardgnassingbe71@myway.com
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:57:31 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT.
FROM: MR.RICHARD GNASSINGBE
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
SBM Nedbank International Limited
6th Floor, State Bank Tower
Queen Elizabeth II Avenue
Port Louis, Nigeria
EMAIL: richardgnassingbe71@myway.com
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
First I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction, this is by
virtue
of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top
secret. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make
any
one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day. There is no
doubt
that trust conceptually is a conundrum which
leads itself to deferring interpretation, we have
decided to contact
you
due to the urgency of this transaction.
I am the manager, bills and exchange at the foreign
remittance
department
of the SBM Nedbank International Bank,
Lagos Nigeria I came to know you in my private
search for a reliable
and
reputable
person to handle this Confidential
Transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a
foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$17,320,000.00
(seventeen million
three
hundred and twenty thousand united
states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign
customers
who died along with his entire family of a
wife and two children in november 1998 in a plane
crash. Since his
death,
none of his next-of-kin or relations has come
forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We
cannot release
the
fund from his account unless someone applies
for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our
banking
guidelines, unfortunately, no family member nor
relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund.
Upon this
discovery,
we now seek your permission to have you stand
as next of kin to the deceased so that the funds
(seventeen million
three
hundred and twenty thousand united states
dollars) can be released and paid into your account
as the
beneficiary's
next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to
treasury as unclaimed funds which will subsequently
be donated to the
trust
fund for arms and ammunition to further
enhance the course of war in the World. All
documents to enable you
receive
this funds will be carefully worked out by
us as we already have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to
locate
any of deceased beneficiaries, and more
so we are assuring you that this business is safe.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual
business
endeavour by furnishing me with the
following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letters of
claim to the
appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your
favour before the transfer can be made. We have
agreed that our ratio
of
sharing will be as stated thus; On final
conclusion of this project, 65% of this surplus
shall be for us,
while 30%
shall be for you and the remaining 5% shall
be used to compensate either party for any expenses
incurred. Your
share
stays while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes.
Whilst this anormalities may well raise your doubts
in view of the
fact
that you are a person not physically known to us,
I advice that a healthy degree of caution be
exercised before conclusions
are reached by your goodself. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust we have
bestowed
in you, I await your urgent mail. Please
reply to EMAIL: richardgnassingbe71@myway.com
Best Regards,
MR. RICHARD GNASSINGBE.
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