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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: "Steven Parker" <stevenparker@stevenzone.net>
Reply-To: steparksss1@yahoo.ie
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:34:11 +0000
Subject: Need Your Reply ...
Dear Sir/ MAdam,
Do not be surprised about receiving this confidential proposal from
somebody you do not know. It is as a result of the urgency and nature of
the
business that made me contact you in this manner. I am Mr. Steven
Parker, an attorney from Durban, South Africa and a personal attorney to
late
Mr. John Cuthbertson, (hereinafter referred to as my “client”) an
expatriate and an oil/mining contractor who used to work in my country back
in Africa
as an Engineering Consultant with South African mining Corporation.
On the 31st of January 2000, my client died from an air crash aboard
Alaska Airline flight 261 that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31,
2000.(http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/index.html).
My client used to be a close friend of my late father who also died
four years ago. Shortly, before my client’s death, he had instructed me to
prepare his WILL but without a named beneficiary yet. He had already
signed the WILL and was contemplating on making his pet dog the beneficiary
since he had no wife nor children before he died from the air crash. Since
that unfortunate incident, I have made several enquiries to locate any of my
client's relatives to facilitate repatriation of his estate from
Africa.
My efforts up till date proved unsuccessful. His personal house in the
capital city Pretoria has already been confiscated by the government.
The reason for contacting you is to assist me urgently in repatriating
the sum of Twenty five million six hundred and U.S. Dollars (US$25,600,000)
left behind by my client before his death. This amount of money is kept in
safe custody with a security/finance company operating between Africa and
Europe.
The security company has issued me a notice to provide the next-of-
kin of my client or have the money declared unserviceable and returned to
the South African government. I cannot claim this money myself because of
my position as the Attorney to the deceased and the Security company is
aware of this situation.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives for
five years now, I seek your consent for a confidential co-operation with me
so that I can present you as the next-of-kin to my client – Mr. John
Cuthbertson for the money to be paid to you as the beneficiary. Note
that this transaction is simple and risk free because I will provide you
with expert legal services, documentations and transaction codes that will
guarantee the successful execution of this deal with the
security/finance company. All I require is your honesty and serious
co-operation to
enable us see the deal through. I guarantee you that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.
I wish to point out that after the claims, I would want 20% of this
money to be shared among charity organizations, while the remaining 80% is
shared equally between us. You will agree with me that It is a better
judgement for us to claim this money and put into profitable/peaceful use
than
allowing it to be confiscated and divided amongst the corrupt government in
South
Africa.If you are capable of handling this transaction, please reply
via my email address: steven_parker1@yahoo.ie with your full names and
telephone number to enable us discuss and proceed accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Steven Parker.
Email: steven_parker1@yahoo.ie
Solicitor.
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