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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: Mark Anderson <mcanderson58@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:51:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Attn: Roland Hoek, private letter for you, (from auditing and accounting unit) Reply ASAP!
FROM: MR MARK ANDERSON
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
UNION TOGOLEASE de BANQUE (UTB) LOME-TOGO
S.A 13 RUE DU COMMERCE BP.346
LOME -TOGO WEST AFRICA.
Attention: Roland Hoek,
this letter is to notify you of the previous email that I instructed my personal assistant to send to you, maybe he tried or have contacted you with his own name so as to do this transaction alone with you. But althesame, I still have to let you know i was the person that instructed him to contact you and below is the message that i instructed him to send to you.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (Ten million US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers from your country, who died along with his entire family in APRIL,2000 in a ROAD ACCIDENT.
Since we got this information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after long period, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family.
Thereafter I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will beremitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer with my position in this bank. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. We can conclude this operation within ten banking days.
Please keep this very confidential so as to protect my interest and reputation in the office. Contact me for more information.
I also wish to inform you that the fund will cannot be transferred to you without my concent and signing. In effect to this, i want you to send along with your response, any email you have received from anyone concerning a transaction of this magnitud.
May God be with you. Trusting to hear from you shortly. Peace and love always.
Best regards
MR MARK ANDERSON (U.T.B)TOGO
Contact me at marka000033@yahoo.fr
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