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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: "andrew duke" <afduke1@legalchambersonline.com>
Reply-To: afd2005@myway.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:49:16 +0000
Subject: Awaiting Your Response
From the desk: Barrister Andrew Frank Duke (Esq)
1 Bankole street, Apongbon, Lagos,
Nigeria.
Dearest,
I am Barrister Andrew Frank Duke , a Solicitor; I am the Personal Attorney
to Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in
the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000,including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the
crash on visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/Unfortunately they all
lost their lives in the event of the accident, since then I have made
several inquiries to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has
also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts,I
decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of
His family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I contacted you to assist
in repatriating the money in addition, property left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bankwhere this
huge deposit was lodged. Particularly, Crystal Bank Limited where the
deceased had an account valued at about US$9.5million dollars.
Consequently, the bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since
have been Unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4years now, I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are
a foreigner, regardless of your country, with your name address, some
vitals documents will be obtained on your favor which will back you as the
next of kin to my client. The proceeds of this account valued at US$9.5
million dollars will be paid to you and then you and I can share the
money.55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should before expenses or tax as
your government may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in
touch with me through this email address to enable us discuss further.
Best regards,
Barrister Andrew Frank Duke (esq)
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