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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: onuoha james <profjames_777@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:50:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT
Good-day.
My search for a trustworthy individual/firm has led me to you. I came across your contact while looking for a worthwhile investments or projects that I can be affiliated with. I have access to what most firms and individuals need the most, Funds. but lack the full manpower to put the funds to good use since I am still in active service in my country.
I am the manager Bills and Exchange of Foreign mittance department of Union Bank of NIgeria (U.B.N. BRANCH IMO NIgeria) formally Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS-AG Zurich Switzerland). In accordance with Federal Government Policies on indiginalization Law on company and Allied matters of
Jan 1977.
I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this transaction. We discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5 million(Ten million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our Foreign customer who died along side his entire family in November 1999 in a plane crash.
Now the management of the bank has ordered that all dormant accounts will be frozen. On the strength of this order, I wish to make advantage of this situation and present you as the beneficiary of this fund and get it transferred to your designated account, if not it will be reverted to the government account as unclaimed debt.
Please be informed that all documents relating to this transaction will be destroyed immediately after the transfer, for safety purposes.
In light of the above , I therefore solicit your assistance to provide a well maintained account that can accommodate this fund. The management is ready to welcome anybody preferably a foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I will give you immediately, if you indicate your sincere willingness to handle this project with me.
Since this development, we have advertised for his next of kin or any close relation to come forward to claim this money, but nobody came to apply for the claim.On the receipt of your positive response, I shall apply for annual leave for our face to face meeting in your country.
We have agreed that 30% of the money will be for you for your assistance in this transaction, while 10%as been mapped out for expenses that will be incurred on both sides in the course of this transaction and 10% will be donated to the charity organization while 60% will be for my colleagues and I.
Please include your phone number to enable me speak with you orally for more clarification. Once I receive your reply, I will send you the Text of application for immediate application of Claim.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
]For further discussion please contact me on my office email addy;
Prof.James onuoha.
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