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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: "collins doruuu" <collinsdoruuu@msn.com>
Reply-To: collinsdoru@excite.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:35:32 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT ASISSTANT NEEDED
>From Collins Doru Assistant General Manager
FSB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.
Bank Location AT #34 INTERNATIONAL
AIR PORT ROAD
IKEJA LAGOS NIGERIA
#234-1-475-3906
Dear Sir,
I am Mr.Collins Doru ,Assistant General Manager & Financial Controller of
FSB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC. I have decided to bestow this trust on you which
I
pray you will not ignore or betray. My apologies in advance for any
inconveniences this may cause you. I am the Account Manager to late Engr.
Thomas
Myers. He was an oil merchant, a representative / fiduciary agent to some
Refineries overseas and a contractor to SHELL B.P in NIGERIA. He was the
President of BELLPOINT ENERGY & CONSULTANT LTD. Mr.Myers was a victim (died)
together with his wife and two children in Egyptian air, that crash on
October
31st 1999.
I’m contacting you after my several contacts made to locate any of my
client's
extended family who will apply and receive the total sum of US$19.2Million
which
is the value of the Fixed deposit made by Late Engr.Thomas with our Bank,
and
upon the duration time of his fixed deposit agreement of which our Bank have
contacted him without getting any response from him. Consequently the bank
instructed me to provide the Next Of Kin to Late Engineer Myers since I was
his
Account Manager, Otherwise the Account would be frozen by the government of
Nigeria, due to the law applied by the Bank.
It is in search for my client's family member, that I have decided to
contact
you ,so that I will position you as the bona-fide next of kin to Late
Engr.Thomas, to enable our Bank released the total sum of USD$19.2Million to
your personal account as next of kin to the decease, which I will share with
you
according to the percentage we shall agreed on.
Please if you are ready and interested to carry out this transaction with
me,
kindly feel free and contact me directly once you received this proposal for
details on how you can claim the above total sum to your account. As it may
interest you to know, we can only achieve this transaction within 5 working
days.For easier communication between us,IN REPLY TO THIS MAIL,KINGLY
FORWARD
YOUR FAX AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Regards.
Mr.Collins Doru, (AGM/FC)
FSB INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.
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