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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: "debo ahmed" <debo_ahmed01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:22:14 +0000
Subject: transactional advise and the text of application to apply to the bank..
Dear Sister,
I hope you shall meet this letter in good health,
please i am so sorry to hear what you have just told me as it is very
touching.Please did you mean they where truly affected by the earthquak?
please i am so sorry oncea gain and my family have extended her condollence.
where are you now? are you back to London?
please reach me at once.
i failed to write you earlier than now, as i did not check my private email
box for some days now becuase of official engagements.
I would not have contacted any other person as i earlier informed you that i
want this confidential and because it is confidential, only you and i must
know about it for security reasons.
In view of this,i take it a pleasure to inform you that evry thing is still
very valid, but we must act fast and conclude as the year is coming to an
end.
Bellow is the application letter, see it , fill it with your recieving
baking datas, whether is it in London or Pakistan, you knwo best the account
you deem feet for the transaction, so as soon as you have filed it, get back
to me witha copy and make sure you call me urgently on my telephone number
00 226 76 61 12 83,as you where suppose to have caled me earlier when you
returned from pakistan as you sent me a maila nd did not hear from me.
I advise you to be very punctual in your communication this time, as that is
only what the transaction needs most, as , as soon as you have applied to
the bank now, there is every tendency that you will be getting official
communication often and those communications neds to be responded to with
out delay.
see the application and fill it and senda copy back to me for confirmation.
SEE THE APPLICATION.
....................
...........................................................................................................................................
YOUR ADDRESS.............
YOUR TELL NO.............
YOUR FAX NO..............
E-MAIL ADDRESS............
OCCUPATION.....................
AGE...............................
ATTN,ALHAJI UMAN BEKO,
FROREIGN REMITTANCES / DIRECTOR,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.(ADB)
Email: adbannex@post.com
Tel/Fax:00 226 50 42 01 79
APPLYING AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED.
I'.........FROM.........HEREBY APPLY TO YOUR BANK AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO YOUR
DECEASED CUSTOMER ENG.KATTAN SALIF, FROM AMAN JORDAN, HOLDER OF ACCOUNT
26375782341 , PUTTING CLAIM OVER HIS BALANCE WITH YOUR BANK VALUED AT
US$22.3M (TWENTY MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY.)
UNTILL HIS SUDDEN DEATH,WE HAVE BEEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATES,JOINTLY IN
EXPOSITION AND BUYING OF GOLD AND DIAMOND.
THE FUNDS WERE TRANSFERRED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT THROUGH OUR BANK FOR PURCHASE
OF GOLD AND DIAMOND.
SIR, I WISH TO BE INTIMATED ON THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN HAVING THIS FUND
TRANSFERED INTO MY ACCOUNT AS GIVEN BELOW IMMEDIATELY:
Bank Name:...........................
Bank Address:.............................
Bank Account N..........................
Beneficiary.........................
I ALSO APOLOGISE FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO APPLY SINCE HIS SUDDEN DEATH IN A
PLANE CRASH ON 25th July 2000. IT WAS DUE TO SOME FAMILY PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE
JUST BEEN SETTLED.
I WISH AN URGENT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO MY HUMBLE APPLICATION AS THE
URGENCY IMPLIES IN THIS MATTER.
THANKS IN ANTICIPATION .
YOURS SINCERELY.
......................
TEL/..................
FAX/..................
........................................................................
Note Sister:
You will re-copy this information and fill your own personal data and send
it to the Bank with this fax number.00226 50 42 01 79 or this e-mail address
adbannex@post.com which is the customers service telefax number and emai of
the bank and make sure you get back to me through phone number 00 226 76 61
12 83 in informing me in which way you applied, so that i can monitor it.
After your application, the board will still direct your application to my
office for endorsement, there and then i shall perfect the transfer in your
favour, so long i can trust in you.
Please do not fail to call on my tel number 00 226 76 61 12 83. immediatly
you send the Application to the Bank as to confirm for immediate easy
execution of this transaction.
You are supose to state the application under your company letter headed
paper and sign on it to make it more authentic, but if you dont have a
company to use its company letter headed paper, then you shall just copy it
in a paper and sign on it and send to the bank via attachement or there fax
number as indicated above.
Go through the above and call me on the above line for further advice and
guidiance.
INCH'ALLAH as soon as i hear from you, all shall be well.Let me state that
you should have nothing to worry about as regards to any expenses you may
encounter during the process of this transaction as soon as the funds have
hit your account, it shall be adquately arranged.You may please send me your
staff id also or picture, so that my family can be most relaxed with your
involvement in this transaction.
Please do confirm your fax number for easy communication while you call me
immediately on 00 226 76 61 12 83.
I rely on your immediate response and call asap as the urgency of the
transaction is required.
Your brother.
Dr.Debo Ahmed.
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