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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: "Brathwait Jones" <brathwait_jones14@msn.com>
Reply-To: brathwaitjones14@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:29:59 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY NEEDED!!!
Dear Sir/Madam ,
I am { BRATHWAIT JONES } , accountant for foreing bill of
exchange operation department of the Standard Trust Bank
plc here in Nigeria . I am writing following the impressive
information about you through an internet geonological
research .
In my department , we discovered a long term deposited fund
of { $16, 000 000 m } Sixteen million united states dollars
in an account which belong to a foriegn customer who died
along side with his nuclear family in a car accident in
April 21st 1999 Since the bank management received the
information about his death . the management have been
expecting his next of kin to come over for his or her
claim as the huge fund can not be release unless somebody
applies for it legally as the beneficiary / next of kin to
the deceased / fund as indicated in our banking guide .
Unfurtunately all efforts to locate the next of kin to the
deceased by the bank management proved abortive .
Now as the personal accountant to the deceased , after much
official enquiry / verification through the deposit files
of the deceased , i was able to realise that his supposed
next of kin died along side with him at the car accident in
April 21st 1999 .
The banking law and guideline act 00.02 of the foreign
beneficiary fund release stipulates that such fund remain
uncliamed after the exsisting period of seven years , as
the fund shall be automatically transfered into the
national treasury account as uncliamed bill . As the
personal accountant to the deceased , i therefor decide to
make business with you by releasing the fund { $16 , 000
000 m } to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safe
keeping of the fund / subsequent disbursement as i do not
want the fund to be transfered into the national treasury
as unclaimed fund .
Note : This transaction is 100% risk free as i have all
requisite information which shall aid the total
accomplishment of this fund repatriation into your personal
account as the beneficiary to the deceased . Upon the
confirmation of your positive response , i shall send to
you by fax / mail the commencement step , full
information of the bank and that of the deceased for
instant inception of this transaction .
State your interest by corresponding back with your
informations which shall be needed for the documentation of
your file which will prove you to the bank as the legal
beneficiary to the deceased , the needed informations are
as follows :
Your full name :
Full contact / postal address :
Contact phone :
Fax number :
Occupation :
Age :
The uplisted informations are requisite for the instant
commencement of this transaction and feel free to contact
me via my private cell phone number { +234-805-621-9055 } for
effective communication and further explanation of this
transaction .
I look forward to your positive response .
NOTE : Correspond back to my official / private email
identity at { brathwaithjones14@yahoo.com } .
Regards .
Brathwait A. Dare Jones
Accountant (STB)
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