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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: "Samuel George" <gamomoh666@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: samgeor1000@sify.com
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:07:58 +0000
Subject: Good day
Good day,
I am Samuel George, staff of International Private Banking. I am contacting
you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our
banks management Five years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep
the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the
information you come by as a result of this mail.
I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of
this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I
believe would be of interest to you. In 1999, Mr. Andreas Schranner came to
our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division
which later led to a deposition of Thirty Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his
behalf. The favored route in my advice to customers is to start by assessing
data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of
alternative investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around
various opportunities and made attractive margins In mid June 2000, he asked
that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment
requiring cash payments in the United States of America.
In July of that same year, tragedy struck when a Concorde AF4590 Plane
crashed killing our client with the remaining 108 passengers. For more
Information see BBC News
on--http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
This was five years ago and no claim has been made by any heir and failing
to receive viable claims the bank will most probably claim the deposit and
the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the Private Banking
division. What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but
I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking
world who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. The
world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those
who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios.
You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I
propose. I alone have the relevant details to make you a Business Partner to
the deceased.This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this
man’s family; they have investigated for months and have found no family
left for claimant. The investigation has almost come to an end. My proposal
(should you accept); I am prepared to place you in a position where the
funds can be your inheritance as his business partner which gives you legal
rights over the funds in question.
We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the
consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in
this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be
vindictive and destructive.If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this
message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because
you do not approve of my proposal.
I await your response.
Samuel George.
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