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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: "Tom Rich" <tom_rich2005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tom_rich111@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:18:48 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED PLEASE.
FROM THE DESK OF:
Mr.Tom Richard
Cometh Bank of Nigeria Plc.
Attention:
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.Though I know
that all will be well at the end of the day, we have decided to contact you
due to the urgency of this transaction as we feel that you may have the
ability to handle such transaction.
Let me start by introducing myself to you, I Mr.Tom Richard an Accountant
with Cometh Bank of Nigeria Plc. Lagos. I came to know you in my private
search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential
business transaction.
The Preposition:
A foreigner, late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell, an oil merchant/contractor with the
federal government of Nigeria until his death in Korean air flight 801,which
crashed in Guam on august 1997, banked with us here at Cometh Bank of
Nigeria Plc., Victoria Island branch and had a closing balance of US$9.5M
(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which the bank Unquestionably
expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next of kin of the late
beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms
and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.
Fervently, valuable effort were made by the Cometh Bank to get in touch
with any of the Daligh's family or relative but proved to no avail. It is
because of the perceived possibly of not being able to locate any of the
late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell's next of kin (he had no wife and children) that
the management under the influence of our Chairman and Members of the
Boards of Directors, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be
declared un-claimable and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms
and ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world
in general as stated in the our financial constitution that any unclaimed
deposited fund after five years be converted.
In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues
and I now seek your permission to have you stand as the Next-of-kin to
Engr.Dahlig Mitchell so that the funds US$ 9.5M (Nine Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars) would be released and paid into your bank account as the
beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this
fund will be careful worked out and more so we are assuring you a 100% risk
free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest will be for me and my colleague for
investment purpose in
your Country.If this proposal is all right by you then kindly get back to me
immediately, for us to proceed in the execution of this life time
opportunity.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Tom Richard.
(Accountant Cometh Bank Plc)
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