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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: "Michel IGHO" <milo@bubble.fi>
Reply-To: m.igho@lawyer.com
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:07:32 +0200
Subject: I hope to hear from you soonest
Dankwa Chambers
74 Rue Du blvd
Lome Togo Republic.
Telephone: + 228-9-99 53 70.
Email:
Dear Friend,
How are you?. I apologise as this may have come to you as a surprise. I am contacting you for the claim of my late client's fund that was deposited with the Union Togolaise Bank.
May I start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Barrister Michel Igho, of 74 Rue du blvd Lome Togo Republic, the personal attorney to late Engr. J. A. Hawkin - an oil merchant with the Federal Government of Lome-Togo who died some years ago in Kenya Air Bus (A310-300) flight KQ430.
The crux of the matter is that my client who banked with Union Bank Plc., Lome-Togo with a closing balance worth USD$8M as at the end of September, 2002 unfortunately died without giving a clear contact details of any relative/next of kin in his documents with
the bank; of which the bank right now expects the next of kin to come forward as beneficiary.
Meanwhile, I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter. I'm making contact with you since efforts made by the Union Togolaise Bank of Lome-Togo to get in touch with any of the deceased family or relatives has been unsuccessful.
Apparently, the management under the influence of the bank's chairman and members of the board of directors has made arrangements for the fund to be declared unclaimed if no one comes forward. However, in order to avert this negative development I'm taking it upon myself as my duty to contact you because you bare the same name with the listed name as the next of kin to his properties. It will interest you however to know that I have secured from the probate an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries as part of my obligation.
Nevertheless, I must solicit your confidence in this claim by virtue of its nature being utterly confidential and top secret. It is actually with a heart full of hope that I write, soliciting for
your strict confidence in this transaction. So if this proposal is acceptable by you I would advise you kindly reply back atonce to enable me aply for the immediate release of the fund in your favor as the next of kin. More importantly, I would want you to furnish me with your "Full Contact Address", "Fax Number" and your "Direct Private Telephone Line" for easy communication and subsequent briefing on how we are to go about the transaction. Though I know that contact of this magnitude could make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well since I know everything about my late client's fund.
Hence, as soon as I receive an acknowledgement of the receipt of this message in acceptance I will immediately start up with the process.
I hope to hear from you soonest
Yours sincerely,
Barrister Michel Igho.
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