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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: "Phillipe Takuma" <phillipetakuma3@msn.com>
Reply-To: phillipetakuma@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:26:27 +0000
Subject: MAIL FROM MRS GUPTA.
FROM:THE DESK OF Mr Phillipe Takuma.
NATIONAL INVESTMENTBANK LTD (GHANA).
E-MAIL: phillipetakuma@o2.pl
Good-day to you,
I am Mr Phillipe Takuma, the director in charge of auditing and accounting
section of NATIONAL INVESTMENTBANK LTD (GHANA).with due respect and regard,I
have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very
beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction .
My bank deceased customer a national of your country,who used to work with
Chevron oil company in Ghana On the 26st of Dec. 2003,my client his wife and
two of their children were involved in a Boeing 727 plane crash into Cotonou
beach, which cliamed the lives of about 140 passengers including my client
and his entire family,unfortunately they all lost their lives.
Since then my bank made several inquiries to establish contact with any of
his relation without success.After the several unsuccessful attempts to
locate any of his extended relations,I decided to contact you for this
venture so that we can pull it together,this deal is without any risk at
all. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by
my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable in my bank
where this huge deposits totalling USD$11.5 Million.As you have the same
last name with the deseased. According to banking rules & regulations and
Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations guiding deposit.
It is very necessary we get this concluded because my bank (National
Investment Bank Ltd) senior officers, are planning to syphone this money
into their private pockets if not claimed as soon as possible from now.
I REFER YOU TO THE PLANE CRASH WEBPAGE FOR YOUR CONFIRMATION:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm
Since my bank has been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 10
months now, I seek your consent to present yourself as the next of kin of
the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at USD$11.5 Million
dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money thus: 65%
for me while 30% goes to you, 5% will be marked for expenses that will be
incurred during the process of transfer of the fund. I hope i can entrust
this fund into your hands as i lay my sincere trust in you.
Be informed that all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up
this claim will be made available through our mutual efforts together and as
long as you follow to my instructions.All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see 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 by my e-mail.You can also include your telephone
Number in your response to enable us discuss further. I am confident we will
work together.
Thanking you in anticipation for your co-operation while expecting your
positive response.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Phillipe Takuma.
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