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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: "AHMED HAM" <hammed33@msn.com>
Reply-To: ahmedham2005@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:08:20 +0000
Subject: Good-Day
Mr. Ham med
Please refer your acceptance mail through
ahmedham2004@yahoo.it
Sir;
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am contacting you on business transfer of a hugh sum
of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am sure that you are
experienced in handling this sums. We decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$29,500,000.00
(Twenty-Nine million Five Hundred united states
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who paid in these funds into our
bank as depository for an investment program he was
involved.
She was at our bank five(5) months ago at the
beginning of this investment program, but
unfortunately she died through circumstantial reasons.
The details of the investment program states that she
and she only is in control of the funds and it was
invested out of her corporate estate. Her family
records are not stated in our bank records and in her
investment program contracts. Thus her family are not
aware. Again she is a widow.
The rules in our bank here in South Africa puts the
money under current Bank Assets as soon as they do not
get communication from the accounts owner within a
stipulated period agreed during the clients accounts
opening. In the case of this customer, he is meant to
send banking instructions every three months.
She died one month ago and I got to know from my
sources, and her Obituary has also stated in the link
below:
http://www.herald-journal.com/obits/2004/barnes0104.html
She has been buried and I know no one knows about
these funds. Since her 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.
Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to
have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by us for
the funds (US$29,500,000.00) to be released in
your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from
the probate an ORDER OF MADAMUS to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.
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 letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals in your favour before the transfer can be
made. We look forward to your suggestions and sharing
formula. Your share stays while the rest shall be for
us for investment purposes. 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.
Regards,
Mr.Ham med
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