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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: "peter okomma" <peterokomma@msn.com>
Reply-To: peterokomma@myway.com
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:23:32 +0000
Subject: Good day!!!
Dear Friend,
Naturally, this letter will come to you as a surprise, since we have not
met, permit me however, I am Barrister.Peter Okomma, I am contacting you to
kindly assist me in the Project below, which will be of mutual benefit to
us both. A salvadorean, Mr. Ramirez Fein, 66 years of age and a very
prosperous farmer made a huge bank deposit for investment in the sum of
US$17.5 Million (Seventeen Million, Five hundred Thousand United States
Dollars)he named his wife Mrs. Helga Fein as the NEXT OF KIN . I was
called upon as an Accredited Attorney to the bank to sign and endorse
documents to this deposit on Mr.Fein's behalf. Unfortunately, Mr. &
Mrs.Fein were killed in the January 14,earthquake that rocked El Salvador
, killing thousands of people and 1,200 others were declared missing.
The bank management now mandates me (being the lawyer that signed and
endorsed the deposit papers for the deceased to trace the family relatives
of the deceased so that the fund will be released to them.I was made to
understand that they had no children. I made several efforts through the
El Salvador High Commission in Lagos to contact any of the deceased family
relatives, but to no avail. Failure to reach any of the family relatives
of the deceased,the only option left for the Bank's Management is to
declare the deceased account dormant and revert the fund on trading and
investment in the interest of the bank. In order to avoid this development
since it has so far been impossible to trace any of the deceased family
relatives.
I now seek your permission and assistance to have you stand as a distant
relatives to the deceased. So that the fund can be released to you and we
can use it for our mutual benefit. I hope you do understand my concern in
this matter, if we do not use this opportunity to claim this fund,since
the deceased relatives cannot be traced, the management of the bank will
declare the deceased's account dormant and revert the fund on Trading and
Investment in the interest of the bank.
For your assistance, you will be compensated adequately with (40%) of the
total sum (55%) will be my own share while (5%) will be set aside to cover
any incidental expense made both at home and abroad prior to this
transaction . If you are interested in assisting me with this
matter,please send to me urgently via my EMAIL the following detailsbelow:
*Full name, Company or Private Address *Telephone and Fax number(s).
Upon receiving the above details from you, I will work out every
documents/proof representing you as the deceased BONA-FIDE distant relative
and when this is done, you will be contacted by the bank for the release
and collection of this fund, which will be within one week of my receiving
the above details from you.I will meet with you in your country for
disbursement after the fund might have been released to you and also to
discuss investment potentials as I will like to invest in your country with
your assistance. Be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, as
I have taken care of all necessary modalities to enable a hitch free
transaction.
Kindly ensure to treat this matter in strict privacy (Highly
Confidential).
Yours sincerely,
Barrister.Peter Okomma
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