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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: "Adamu George" <adamu_george@ecobanknig.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:02:50 +0000
Subject: Next Of Kin
Dear Mcguire
Greetings to you and your family. I am Mr. Adamu George, a Director of
Operations with the ECO BANK PLC. Head Office here in Nigeria.
I am writing hoping that that you will be capable and reliable to
champion
this Business opportunity. In my department, we discovered a dormant
sum of
USD15.5M (Fifteen Million, five hundred thousand dollars only).in an
account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr. Robert Mcguire, who died
along
with his entire family in November 2001 in an auto crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in
our
Banking guidelines.
Unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin also died along
with
him in the auto crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make contact with a foreigner of which you
happened to be the lucky person to act as the next of kin to the
deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody has come for It.
The Banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remains
unclaimed after four years, it will be transferred into federal
Government
account as unclaimed funds.
The request for you to act as the next of kin in this Business is
occasioned by the fact that you share the same surname with our
customer
(Mcguire) and with that it will be easy for us to transfer the proceeds of
his
account to you and also easier to get legal documents that will cover
the transaction too.
We promise to give you 20% of the fund as a foreign partner while 70%
will
be for us and the 10% left will be for expenses incurred by both
parties
during the course of remittance.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of the funds to you as
arranged,
you must apply first to the Bank as a next of kin of the deceased .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you the text of the application
which you will make to the bank.
Please reply as soon possible if you are interested.
To enable me give you the details of the transaction. phone numbers
for the
effective communication are required.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Adamu George.
ECO BANK PLC.
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