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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: "Brain Capon" <braincapon22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: police3@myway.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:11:04 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE
Dear Friend,
I am MR TUNDE DAWODU, the bills and exchange director
at the GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC.I am writing following an oppurtunity in my
office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my Bank we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5 MILLION in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Morris
Thompson an American whom unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and
only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html .
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the
Bank cannot release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his
only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the
knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I do not want this money to go into
the bank treasury as an unclaimed bill.
40% of the money will be your share as a foreign partner and
your assistance to actualise this business,5% for any expenses incured.
Thereafter i will visit your country with your help once the money hits your
account for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
Note, this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as
you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail whethere or not
you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one
about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you
mention this to someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this regard.
Please, note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release
of these funds to you has been finalised.I will discuss much in details when
I do receive your response. Please in your response only via my Private
Email:brian231capon@yahoo.co.uk, including the following information.
{1}Your full name and address
{2}Your telephone/Moblie number and fax number
{3} Your business name
{4} Age and status.
Best regards,
MR TUNDE DAWODU.
Private Email:brian231capon@yahoo.co.uk
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