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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: "Dagogo Jack" <dagogo_@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:45:28 +0000
Subject: THANKS
DEAR FRIEND,
Please permit me to inform you that this proposal does not have
anything to
do with ill intention or is it a child play. Please if you receive it
and
after going through it, you found you’ self not interested in it,
Please
kindly destroy it.
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue
of its 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.
We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we
have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in
transaction
of this nature by your country man who works in our embassy.
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am . DR.DAGOGO
JACK.
Credit Officer with the Magnum Trust Bank Plc, Lagos. 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 Huge Sum of
Money
to a Foreign Account with Maximum Confidence.
THE PROPOSITION IS AS FOLLOWS:
A Foreigner, an American, Late GILBERT HABIB(Snr.) an Oil Merchant with
The
Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death months ago in Kenya Air
Plane
(A310 - 300) Flight KQ430, Banked with us at Magnum Trust Bank Plc,
Lagos
and had a closing balance as at the end of September, 2000 worth
US$25,000,000.00 (TWENTY Five Million Dollars), the bank now expects a
next
of kin as beneficiary. And I was contacted to do so. Valuable efforts
were
made by me Magnum Trust Bank Plc to get in touch with any of the
HABIB'SFamily or Relatives but to no success.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate
any
of Late Engr. GILBERT HABIB(Snr.)’s next of kin (He had no wife or
children
that is known to us).The Management under the influence of our Chairman
and
Members of the Board of Directors, made an arrangment for the fund to
be
declared “Unclaimed” 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 next of kin to
Late
Engr.GILBERT HABIB(Snr.) so that the fund US$25 Million(twenty five
million
us dollars) will be released and paid into your Account as the
beneficiary’s
next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will
be
carefully worked out. We have secure from the probate an order of
madamus
to locate any of deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring
you
that this business is 100% Risk Free involvement. Your share stays
while
the rest be for myself and my vcolleagues for investment purpose.
According
to agreement within both parties.
As soon as we receive an acknowledgment or receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, we would furnish you with
the
necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suite both parties
without
any conflict.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of
the
trust we have bestowed in you.
Best Regards.
DR.DAGOGO JACK.
CREDIT OFFICER (MTB)
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