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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: "markclark99@go.com" <markclark99@go.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:00:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: For your kind attention.
For your kind attention,
I know this email will come to you as a surprise especially when you do not know the me and considering the huge sum of money involved which could make any one apprehensive at first. Let me start by introducing my self to you, I am Mark Clark, an accountant with Nationwide Building Society in the United Kingdom, i am in the Foreign Exchange and Treasury Bills Department.
In my department we discovered in a dormant account an abandoned sum of £7.5m (Seven five million Five hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) in an account that belongs to a late customer Mr. Alan Williams who died in a plane crash in Tanzania on his way to a vacation with his wife Sue, Sister in-law and close family friends. You can read more on the site below:
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/20/wsaf20.xml
His company is the biggest candle manufacturing company in Britain. My proposal to you is to file you in as his next of kin then have the funds transferred to your nominated bank account be it a new bank account or existing bank account. Since the bank got information about his death, we have been expecting his someone to contact us as his Next Of kin, i even went through his record to see if there is any other person other than his wife put down as his next of kin, but there was none.
But unfortunately, Alan Williams died along side his Next Of kin, his wife Sue and close family relatives, leaving nobody behind for the claim of his remains with my bank. It is therefore upon this discovery that i and my colleague who controls WILLED-FUND DOCUMENTS/DISKETTE decided to place you as the Next Of kin to the deceased. Have it in mind that the only people aware of this my email are me, you and my Colleague on no circumstance or condition you relate this information to anyone. It is a secret we have to take to our grave.
When replying to this email, kindly send your Full names and direct telephone number for further discussion.
Honesty and Trust is our watchword, and for your assistance, we have humbly mapped out 30% to you for providing an account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred on both side during the business and 60% will be for us.
Thereafter, my Partner and I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated above. I will be waiting for your urgent response. Kindly respond with your direct telephone number to my personal email address markclarke99@02.co.uk or markclarke99@netscape.net for further discussion.
Best Regards,
Mark Clark.
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