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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: "Daniel Nelson" <crest71crest@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dnelson@mail.nu
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:00:22 +0000
Subject: Be Part Of This Success
Strictly confidential:
Hello,
Re: collection of fund ($USD50,000,000.00) under special
arrangement.
Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for such a big
transaction through an ordinary letter which makes it suspicious
considering the type of fraud proposals moving around the world
today.
However, I was advised to explain this transaction to you on
face to face meeting.
I could not do this because of the situation in the world today not
being sure of your reaction.
I am Mr. Daniel Nelson, a consultant and broker from Kingston
Jamaica. I was hired by a Japanese business man to broker an investment
deal
between himself and oil company in Venezuela. This deal was executed
in January 1997 and matured for termination in 2001. On maturity, the
Japanese businessman and the oil firm decided to terminate the
investment in cash to avoid payment of investment tax which amounted
to several millions of U.S dollars to the America internal
revenue service (IRS). A special arrangement was made between a top
Japanese banker working with Japanese bank in New York, the oil
company and the businessman to terminate the investment in cash payment
under a fictitious name with an arrangement to change it latter
with a power of attorney which they prepared and handed over to the
top banker. I was directly involved, well paid and mandated to organize
and carry out the deal. All the cash was withdrawn in august 2001 and
transported to Europe by direct bank vault to vault
delivering to a private diplomatic storage in Europe for safe keeping
pending the collection. The real content of the boxes were not
declared to the storage as it was delivered as personal family
treasure and diamonds. The code for the storage, secret codes for the
opening of the boxes and its keys were all handed over to me.
Mr. Takashi the New York business man was planning to go to Europe by
mid of November 2001 with me for the collection when the unexpected
happened in September 11th attack on the twin tower which claim his
life and that of the top banker. This left me devastated and confused
as I have not yet handed over the deposit details to the owner and
the power of attorney prepared fore the change which was signed was
still with the banker in his office which was also lost. It was agreed with
the storage that the consignment would be collect on or before 12 months
from the date of delivery. Since due date the diplomatic
storage manager has been calling me to bring or tell the owner to come
over for collection.
My friend, since then I have been looking for any reliable person
to collect these consignment under special and well negotiated
arrangement until I got your email contact.
All the needed secret code and identification and collection are all
with me. Be rest assured that this transaction has been well
organized, 100% safe, legal, risk free and should be kept very
confidential.
Please, contact me for the way forward in this transaction. If you
think we can do this together in trust.
Reach me with your personal data as follows.
1. Your phone and fax numbers.
2. Your physical address both corporate and
residential
3. Age, sex and marital status.
4. Position and name of office.
Expecting to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Daniel Nelson.
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