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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: "DOUGLAS MUSA" <douglasmusa@msn.com>
Reply-To: douglassq@88.am
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:48:59 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS
ATTN: PRESIDENT / CEO,
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
I am Douglass .S.Musa , Head Foreign Exchange Dept; NATWEST BANK CHELSEA
ENGLAND .Every Six years, British Banks transfer to it treasury, Millions of
Dollars/Euro of unclaimed deceased Depositors Funds, in compliance with the
Banking Laws and Guidelines. In the majority of cases, with reference to my
Natwest Bank , the money normally runs into several millions of DollarsUntil
Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong, governor of Taiwan's Central Bank, his wife and only
daughter with other four other finance officials returning from a conference
in Bali Died in a plane crash in Taiwan, I was his foreign currency denoted
Bank Account Manager with constant balance in excess of eight digits.
Ever since his death and up till this time of writing, no next of kin or
relation of his has come forward to claim his money with us,since they lost
their only daughter who was supposed to inherit this liquid assets. However,
with
my position, I am directly in charge of Bills and Exchange in the Foreign
Remittance Department of this bank.I am in a position to cause the payment
of this money to whosoever that present himself or herself as the next of
kin or relation of late Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong on private business deal basis.
Please View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/
The purpose of my writing to you exclusively is that I want to pull out this
unclaimed money amounting to, US$45,900,000.00 (Fourty Five Million, Nine
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with your cooperation and
assistanceby just doing the following-
1. Act as the next of kin or relation of late Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong
2. Provide your bank account and location where you want the money remitted.
3. Provide your direct and private telephone/fax numbers for effective
communication.
4. Give immediate reply to this proposal, using this email address
Upon receipt of your response and agreeing with my terms, I will send to you
by fax the legally certified documents that proves that you are the next of
kin/beneficiary of the said funds.For your co-operation and efforts 40% of
the money will be for you as our foreign partner, while 60% will be for my
colleagues and myself that will eventually visit your country for
disbursement of our fund portion. As a matter of fact,it is pertinent to
inform you that all modalities have been accomplished and all logistics in
good shape to effect payment immediately.
Looking forward to a mutual beneficial business relationship.
Treat with extremely confidential
Best regards,
Douglass.S.Musa
Head Foreign Exchange Dept NATWEST BANK CHELSEA ENGLAND
Note: The Money could also be paid officially to you in cash depending on
our agreement
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