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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: "thompson ali" <thompsonali1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: thompsonali_111@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:11:58 -0500
Subject: NEXT OF KIN/CLAIMS
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Thompson Ali, the personal financial consultant to Mr Gregory
Barrow,a national of your country, who used to work with the Nigerian
Petroleum Trust Fund,(PTF),as an expartriate staff,here in Nigeria. He was
our valued Customer. On the 4th May 2002, my client, his wife And their only
child were involved in the plane crash here in Nigeria with EAS Airlines
(Executive Airline Services) flight,EAS 4226,Registration: 5N-ESF,with our
then sports minister Mr Mark Ishaya Aku. Since then I have made several
attempts to locate any of his extended relatives but this has also proved
unsuccessful.After those several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member
of his family, I decided to contact you on this subject matter so that I can
present you as the bonafide next of kin to the said account.
NOTE:
Your business status does not matter in this transaction,What matters is
your ability to assist in repartrating the fund left behind by my client
before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Finance
Company where this huge sum is lodged. Particularly,the Pacific Finance and
Investment Company where the deceased had a deposit whose total value
including accrued interest is about US$12.5Million (Twelve Million Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only).As his finance consultant in the same
company,I have been mandated to provide the next of kin or have the fund
confisicated within few weeks.
Since I have no clue of any of his next of kin/relatives,and has tried
unsuccesfully to locate them for some months now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased as if it is an inheritance
left behind by him for you as his next of kin so that the proceeds of this
account valued at US$12.5Million(Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars Only) will be paid to you as an inheritance, and then you and I will
share the fund after you receive it in your account. I have the ability to
negotiate for the release of the Death Certificate of the deceased,which
shall serve as one of the legal documents that can be used to back-up the
transaction.
If you can handle this transaction for our joint benefit, please get back to
me on as soon as possible,so that I can give you more details on this
matter.What is required now is to register/authenticate you as the bonafide
next of kin to the fund.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
We will discuss the sharing ratio when you respond.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best Regards.
Mr. Thompson Ali
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