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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. William Ansah" <williamansah@vigilio.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: infodo@katamail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:04:18 -0800
Subject: Private memo
Greetings,
My name is Mr. William Ansah,I am the regional manager of
Barclays bank of Ghana takoradi branch in the western region of Ghana.
I write you this proposal in good faith; I am 42 years old married with
two lovely kids. I am a devoted Christian and a man of peace.I have
packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the
regional manager of the Barclays bank it is my duty to send in a
financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end
of each business year.
On the course of t he last year 2004 business
report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made four
million eight hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars
($4,850,000.00) which my head office is not aware of and will never be
aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account
with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly
connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me
receive this money in your bank account and get 20% of the total funds
as commission.
There are practically no risks involved, the
transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law,it will be simply a bank-to-
bank
transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the
original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch
so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank
account under few working days. If you accept to work with me I will
appreciate it very much as you are the first and the only person I am
contacting for this transaction.
send me mail as soon as you receive
this message if you think we can work together so that we can go over
the details. Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your
family.
This is my personal phone number +233243331032, you may call
me on receipt of this email.
Yours truly
William Ansah.
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