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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: "Attorney Stanley Uche" <attorney_stanley001@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:24:51 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
Stanley uche& co Legal Practitioner, Solicitors & Notaries &
Property & civil law
35 BODE THOMAS STREET, SURULERE,
LAGOS, NIGERIA
Regarding sir,
With compliments and respect please I beg your pardon for this unsolicited
nature, it was out of desperation and Curiosity that made me to contact you,
to introduce myself,
I am Barrister Stanley uche, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney
to a national of your country, who used to work with Shell Petroleum
Development
Company (SPDC) here in Nigeria, is referred to as my trusted client.
On Sunday, 27th of January 2002, my client, his wife {Lady Anna and their
three children {Elizbeth, Dexter and James} were involved in a terrible bomb
blast that took lives of innocent souls and unfortunately over 1,000, people
lost their lives and my client and his family were part of these people that
lost their lives. In view of this please view the web page below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family or any close name to
his, hence I contacted
you. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and property
left behind by my client before they get liquidated or declared
Unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged, particularly
the GLOBOL BANK OF Africa PLC where the deceased had his account valued
precisely to be USD$15M {Fifteen Million dollars} The bank has issued me a
notice to provide the next of kin or have the account liquidated within the
next twenty one official working days.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a national of same
country to stand in as the next of kin, so that the fruits of this old man's
lab our will not get into the hands of some group of corrupt government
officials who will get rid of the money and share it for their own selfish
interest and greed.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your prompt consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this
account valued at US$15M can be paid to you and then you and I can share the
money according to any agreed ratio.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any
breach of the law.
Looking forward to your swift reply.
Truly yours,
Barrister Stanley uche.
Reply me too this E-mail:attorney_stanley001@yahoo.com
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