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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: "Mr. Jerry Williams" <mrjerrywilliams03@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrjerrywilliams01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:03:55 +0000
Subject: Dear Renaud
From The Desk Of Mr.Jerry Williams
Audit & Finance Officer.
Standard Trust Bank Nigeria Plc.
Dear Renaud,
I am Mr.Jerry Williams an Accountant with STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC LAGOS
NIGERIA,I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to
carry out this business opportunity in my department i am the Personal
Accountant to Engr.Ronald Renaud,a contractor with the Department of
Petroleum Resources(DPR)and,who here-in after shall be referred to as my
client,on the January 27, 2002 my client,and his family were involved in
Ikeja bomb blast unfortunately they lost their lives in the process of the
bomb blast.
Since then,i have made several inquiries to his country's embassy to locate
any of my mclientsextended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,i decided to trace
over the Internet,to locate any member of his family hence my contact with
you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the Bank where these huge deposits were lodged, particularly with the
Standard Trust Bank Plc,where the deceased had an account valued at about
(USD16,311 Million United States Dollars).
Since i have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now,i seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased to
have the account confiscated within the next Ten(10) official working days.
The reason for contacting you is because you are a foreigner and can act in
the capacity of the next of kin to my deceased client,and as such will
enable a change of ownership through the bank,so that the proceeds of this
account valued at (USD16,311 Million United States Dollars),can be paid into
your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it,then you and i
can share the money in this rotio 50% to me,35% to you and 10%for any
charity organization in your country, while 5% will be set aside for
unforeseen bottlenecks we might incur during the course of this transaction.
For clarity,this transaction is 100% risk free and you have nothing to worry
about as all necessary machineries will putted in place to make sure this
funds is paid to you as the legitimate beneficiary to it.
For confirmation, please refer to the links below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worald/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html
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 and me from any breach of the law.
Kind regards,
Mr.Jerry Williams.
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