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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: "Marcus Chukwu" <marcus_chukwu2@msn.com>
Reply-To: marcus_chukwu8@walla.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:58:13 +0000
Subject: Dear FRIEND
Dear FRIEND
I am MR MARCUS CHUKWU Deputy General Manager (Credit
Controls)with Stallion Trust Bank Limited, Lagos,
Nigeria. Few years ago a Citizen of your country, Late
Mr. Powel TAYLOR, a Petrochemical Engineering
Consultant with Eleme Petrol-Chemical Co. Rivers
State.
Mr. Powel TAYLOR, was involved in ADC plan crash on
November 2000,operating a domiciliary account with us
and had a closing balance as at the end of September
2003 amounting to $9,275.000.00 (Nine Million Two
Hundred and Seventy five Thousand, United States
Dollars Only), the bank now expects a relative as
beneficiary to no avail. Valuable efforts have been
made by the Bank to locate any of late family as
beneficiary to his estates without success.
Dear Friend, it is because of the perceived
possibility of not being able to locate any of Late
Mr. Powel's relative, since he died along with his
wife and their only daughter in the unfortunate crash
and left no relative(s)that is known to the bank.
Consequently, the chairman and the Board of Directors
are planning to declare the fund Unclaimed and
transfer it to special trust fund for purchase of arms
and ammunition for ECOMOG soldiers in Sierra Leone and
Liberia zones in the East Africa sub-Regions.
In other to avert this negative development, I now
seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin
to the estate of late Mr. Powel TAYLOR as you have almost
the same "TAYLOR, so that the fund $9,
275.000.00 Million will be released and paid into your
Account as beneficiary and relative. I will help to
arrange all documents and proof to enable us get this
fund out. I am however assuring you that this
transaction is risk free.
Once the fund is Transferred into your account, you
will be entitle to 40% while 60% will be my share, you
will as a matter of trust assist in investing my share
in a profitable business venture. As soon as I receive
your acceptance in principle, I will furnish you with
the necessary modalities for commencement.
Finally, I am relying in my confidence in you, having
opened up to you, if however you are not interested,
please feel free to destroy this information if it did
not meet your willingness and committe
yours sincerly,
MARCUS CHUKWU
pls reply at MARCUS_CHUKWU13@WALLA.COM
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