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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: "Standard Trust Bank" <standardtrustbank102@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: isabakar11@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:13:08 +0000
Subject: Greetings, I am Mr.Abubaka Isa
Dear...
Greetings, I am Mr.Abubaka Isa the Account Manager of Late Mr. Morris
Thompson in Standard Trust Bank Regional Office in okpara avenew, here in
enugu. However I got your contact through the International web directory.I
decided to contact you by email because I feel that it is more secured and
private. Recently we discovered a Dormant Account with a huge amount of
Money Valued USD35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Dollars only)that belongs
to one of our late Customer who died in a plane rash .During our
investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very
huge sum of money belonging to Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who 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 news about
the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
The fund has been dormant in his account With this Bank without any claim of
the funds in our custody either from his family or relation before our
discovery of this development. The Banking law here stipulates that if such
money remains unclaimed for five years, it will be forfeited to the Bank
treasury as an unclaimed bill.It is only a foreigner that can stand as a
next of kin and It is upon this discovery that I decided to contact you to
collaborate with you to pull out this dormant fund. In order to avert this
negative development, I on behalf of my trusted colleagues now seek your
permission to have you stand in as next of kin to Our late Customer so that
the fund will be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary´s
next of kin now that the bank is still expecting a next of kin or relative
of the deceased ,Late Mr. Morris Thompson. In fact we could have done this
deal alone but because of our position in this country as civil servants, we
are not allowed to operate a foreign account and that would eventually raise
an eye brow on our side during the time of transfer since we still work in
this bank, this is the actual reason why we required a second party or
fellow who will assist us forward claims as the next of kin and also provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this fund, even an empty a/c can also serve for this purpose. On
smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% as
gratification for your assisting us, and the remaining 60% will be for me
and my partners. What I want from you is for you to act as the deceased next
of kin. I have in my possession, all the necessary Documents to successfully
accomplish the operation. Bear in mind that this proposal is 100% risk free.
Further Information will be given to you as soon as I receive your positive
response. I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible,
Regards,
Mr.Abubaka Isa
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