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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 williams" <mrsjame@msn.com>
Reply-To: mr_mark_williamsbox@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:27:30 +0000
Subject: Hoping To Hear From you
Mark Williams
Natwest Bank
London.
I am a staff of Natwest Bank, London. I am writing this letter to you
following an opportunity we discovered in our office which I am sure will be
of imense benefit to all of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of Ten million, five hundred
thousand British Pounds Sterling ( £10.5m ) in an account that belonged to
one of our esteemed foreign customer Mr. Morris , an American now deceased.
Late Mr. Morris unfortunately lost his life in a plane crash involving an
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 that crashed on January 31,2000. His wife and
only daughter also died in the plane crash. You may
wish to read more about the incident on the following websites:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since the bank got information about his death we have been expecting his
next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money, but surprisingly
no one showed up. Going through his file in our office we discovered that
the daughter was the only Next Of Kin officiallyknown to the bank and infact
the only child of the deceased. Unfortunately she and the mother also died
in the air crash.
Further investigations by us revealed that Mr. Morris Thompson died
intestate, ie died without a will. And this means no one has knowledge of
this funds in our bank. It is therefore upon these discoveries that I and
two other colleagues in my department decided to do business deal with you
to facilitate the release of the funds to you as the next of kin and
therefore the bona fide beneficiary of this fund in question as we do not
want this fund to revert to Government treasury as unclaimed bill. Cases of
this nature where funds revert to Government treasury abound in our bank.
The banking laws and guidelines here in England stipulates that if funds of
a deceased remains unclaimed after five years such should be transferred
into Government treasury as unclaimed bills.
We have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you whilst the balance
will be for my colleagues and I. And as soon as the transfer of the funds
into your account is completed, we will visit your country for disbursement
as stipulated above.
If you are interested in this deal, please contact me immediately for
further discussions on this matter.
I anticipate your urgent response, whilst also requesting that you treat
this matter in strict confidence.You can contact me through my private
e-mail address (mr_mark_williamsbox@yahoo.com)
Cheers and God bless.
Best regards,
Mr. Mark Williams.
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