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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 Frank Okoh" <mrfrankokoh@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrfrankokoh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:00:19 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Frank okoh, personal attorney to Mr Patrick , an expartriate who was
resident here in Nigeria. On the 2nd of January 2005, I recieved a call that
my client had died in the Tsunami Disaster with his wife and two kids while
on vacation at Phuket Island of Thailand. Since then I have made several
enquiries to locate any of my client's extended relatives. This has proved
unsuccessful.
I have contacted you to assist in repartriating the money left behind by my
client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this deposit is lodged. Particularly, the bank where the deceased had
an account valued at US$3,500,000.00 (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars).
The bank has issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin or have the
account confiscated as Unclaimed Dividends. Since I have been unsuccessful
in locating the biological relatives of my late client, I hereby seek your
consent to present you to the bank as next-of-kin of the deceased since you
are a foreigner, so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$3.5M can
be transfered to you as inheritance and thereafter, you and me can share the
money; 50% to me and 45% to you, while 5% will be donated to the Tsunami
Disaster Charity Fund. I have important legal documents that will be used to
substantiate our inherittance claims.
All I require is your consent and honest co-operation to enable us see the
deal through. Furthermore, I guarantee that the transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. Please contact me via email to enable usdiscuss further.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
David Frank,
Principal,
Frank okoh & Associates,
Lagos, Nigeria.
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