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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: "DR MARK JOHNSON" <info@lingcontrol.com>
Reply-To: opionuwa1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:52:12 +0000
Subject: REMAIN BLESSED
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. OPI SMITH Bank Manager of Lloyds TSB bank
Tower Bridge Road
London. I have urgent and very confidential business
proposition for
you.
On June 6, 2000, Mr. Barry Kelly made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit
for forty-eight months, (being four years) valued at
US$40,000,000.00,
(forty Million, Dollars) in my branch.Upon maturity, I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address
but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder
and finally we discovered from his employers, that Mr.
Barry Kelly died from tsunami on his holidays in
Thailand 26 December 2004. On further investigation, I
found out that he died without making a WILL and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered
that Mr. Barry
Kelly did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents, including his Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank. This sum of
US$40,000,000 has carefully been moved out of my bank
to a security company for safekeeping.No one will ever
come forward to claim it. According to British Law, at
the expiration of (three) years, the money will
revert to the ownership of the British Government if
nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my
proposal is that I will like you to stand in as the
owner of the money I deposited it in a security
company in two trunk boxes though the security company
does not know the contents of the boxes as I tagged
them to be photographic materials for export. I am
writing you because I as a public servant (Manager
with the bank), I cannot operate a foreign account or
have an account that is more than $1m.
I want to present you as the owner of the boxes in the
security company
so you can be able to claim them with the help of my
attorney. This is
simple. I will like you to provide immediately your
full names and
address so that the Attorney will prepare the
necessary documents which
will put you in place as the as the owner of the
boxes.
The money will be moved out for us to share in the
ratio of 70% for me
and 30% for you. There is no risk at all as all the
paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the Attorney and this will
guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply immediately via my
email address
upon your response, I shall then provide you with more
details and
relevant documents that will help you understand the
transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest
assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us
because I shall require your assistance to invest my
share in (Buying of properties like houses, hotels and
doing charity works etc) Please do send me your
private/mobile telephone fax number so that we can
have a smooth communication.Awaiting your urgent reply
via my email
opionuwa1@yahoo.com
Thanks and regards.
OPI SMITH
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