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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: "Dr. Egbuniwe Alexy" <dr_egbuniwe@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_egbuniwe@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:31:21 +0000
Subject: From: Dr.Egbuniwe Okocha Alexy,
From: Dr.Egbuniwe Okocha Alexy,
Manager, Credit and Foreign Bills,
Zenith International Bank Limited,
Lagos-Nigeria.
My name is Dr.Egbuniwe Okocha Alexy, the manager
Credit and Foreign Bills of Zenith International Bank
Limited of Nigeria.
I am writing in respect of foreign customer of my bank with
account number 14-255-2004/zib/t who died in a plane crash
(Ethiopian Airline 961) with other passengers abroad.
Since the death of this customer, I personally have watched
with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has
proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of
US$15.5m (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which has been with my bank for a very
long time.
On this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used
as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of
kin. In vi ew of this I got your contact through my
country's foreign trade mission after I was convinced by
providence that your name could be used as the next of
kin.
The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as the next of kin to
a foreigner.
I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a
foreign partner in respect of providing a new bank account
or we can use your old account information, while the rest
will be for me, thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement as I am almost due for retirement.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this
fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to
the bank as a relation to the deceased indicating your
private telephone number, and fax number for easy
communication and location where the money will be
remitted. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you
by fax or e-mail the application and the next step to take.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as
the whole required arrangement has been made for the
transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter.
Trusting to hear from you.
Your respectfully,
Dr. Egbuniwe Okocha Alexy
Please reply here: dr_egbuniwe@yahoo.co.uk
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