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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: "PAUL OMOLO" <paulomolo5@msn.com>
Reply-To: paulomolonle@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:43:05 +0000
Subject: Assistance needed
I write you this mail which i pray should be urgently replied.I am mr
Omobolonle Paul, a staff of an international Bank, lagos nigeria. I am
writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense
benefit to both of us In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$38.5 Million usd,(united state dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson.He is an American who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You
shall read more about the crash on visiting the below site: Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or
relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or as a relative to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
After careful investigation and due enquiries, we learnt that his supposed
next of kin was his only daughter, who also died along with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.
It is as a result of this discovery that my few colleagues and I in this
department decided to make business with you and release the money to you as
the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds. We however do not want this
money to go back into government treasury as unclaimed bill. We agreed that
35% of this money will be for you as the foreign partner, while the balance
will be for my colleagues and I.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail whether or not you are
willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not interested, I
sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am
very careful on truncating my banking career should you mention this to
someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this regard. Please note that all
necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please in your response, include your telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication and then I would be letting you have my phone number too. I
expect your reply immediately on this email Best regards.
mr. Omobolonle Paul
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
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