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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: "patrick onyeka" <contactpatrickonyeka02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: patrickonyeka@ozu.es
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:37:39 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL!
PATRICK ONYEKA & ASSOCIATE
Attn:
I am Barrister PATRICK ONYEKA of PATRICK ONYEKA & ASSOCIATES. I am the
Personal Attorney to Mr.DAVID JACKSON an America man who unfortunately lost
his life in a Nigerian Cargo plane crash. A Boeing 747 cargo plane which
crashed on Febuary 2001.You shall read more about the crash on visiting this
website.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/11/27/nigeria.crash/
After the unfortunate incident, I have made several enquiries to his
Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace
his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of
no avail, hence I contacted you for your assistance .
My client came to Nigeria 6years ago to invest in the construction of
private refinery in Nigeria, unfortunately, he could not achieve this until
his untimely death 4years ago.Documents inrespect to that are with me.Prior
to his untimely death, as his Attorney, he did tell me about the money he
deposited in one of the commercial banks here in Nigeria.He deposited the
sum of US$31Million in the bank.
I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this
huge deposits were lodged.
Due to the present Capitalization exercise by the Central Bank of
Nigeria(CBN) stating that all commercial banks in the country must increase
there capital base to 25billion our local currency before the end of this
year, all banks are now busy looking for money to meet up with the deadline.
It is on this note that the bank issued me a notice to provide the next of
kin of my client or have the account confiscated.since I have been
unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 3
years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased.
Upon the conclusion of the transaction, the funds will be shared as
follows:- 50% to me, 30% to you, 15% to to charitable organisation to assist
the poor,less priviledge e.t.c,while 5% will be for expenses or tax as your
government may require.
We intend to effect the transfer within a few days from the date of receipt
of the following information:
1)Your name
2)companys name
3)Address
4)Telephone and Fax numbers
I will on my side procure all the necessary legal documents required to back
you up as the next of kin to the deceased.I require your honest cooperation,
Trust and Sincerity 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.
Finally, I want you to know that there are some fraudulent mails of that are
been sent to people at times over the net, I am using this opportunity to
inform you about that. I also want to inform you that this is very real. But
if you are not confortable with it, please do not bother to reply.
Please get in touch with me to enable us discuss further and send me your
fax and telephone number.
Best regards,
Barr.PATRICK ONYEKA
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