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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: "Barr Nomem Ali" <barrnomemali@msn.com>
Reply-To: nomemali@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:58:59 +0000
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Barister Nomem Ali,
BRUSSLES 1210
AFRI BANK PLC
Dear friend,
STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am Barister Nomem Ali, The manager Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of the AFRI BANK OF NIGERIA I am writing this letter
to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department We discovered an abandoned sum of
$9,000000.00 Nine million United States Dollars only in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family of a wife and two children in November 2001 in a Plane crash.
Since we heard of his death we have been expecting hisnext-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his moneyas theheirbecause we cannot release the
fundfrom his account unless someone applies forclaim as thenext-of-kin to
the deceased as indicated in ourbanking guidelinesUnfortunately> neither
their family member nor distantrelative has ever appeared to claim the said
fund Uponthis discovery I and other officials in my department have agreed
to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as
the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained
account with our bank otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be
asstated thus 20 %for you as foreign partner 75 % forus the officials in my
department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences
incurred by us and you during the course of this business=2E Upon the
successful completion of this transfer=2C I andone of my colleagues will
come to your country an mind our share It is from our 75 % we intend to
invest in estate=29 and import Agricultura Machineries into my country as a
way of recycling the fund
To commence this transaction we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail and enclose private contact telephone number fax
number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable
us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals before the transfer can be made ,mean while the assocata financial
security company incharge for the release of the fund has the fund to your
country.
Note also this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its
nature
I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR CALL OK
I look forward to receive your prompt response
Yours Faithfully
Barister Nomem Ali.
AFRI BANK PLC
PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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