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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: mario freeman <mario_freeman63@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:30:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Williams
VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
Dear Brethren,
Good day,
I can,t imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden
business letter from a remote country in far away West
Africa and probably from some one you have not closely
related with. But all the same, I believe we do not
need to be of blood relatives before we can establish
cordial/business relationship. Having said this, I
think it is very important at this juncture to
introduce myself to you and also disclose to you, how
I came in contact with your email address/profile.
My name is Mr.Williams Jacob. I am the district
(Foreign operations) manager of African Development
Bank Group, Nigerian branch. I got your email
address/profile from the Internet. It is my pleasure
to solicit your assistance in a very confidential
business proposal. I am contacting you because I do
not want to transact the business with anybody who is
known to any staff of this bank or anybody around here
to avoid any possible blackmail or leakage at the end
of the transaction.
THE PROPOSAL: There is an account in this bank,
African Development Bank Group, which was opened in
1982 by one Mr. Carison Hogarth, an Australian
National, who worked in a Scottish owned
Petro-Chemical Company (Petro-technical support
services Nigeria Ltd) and since 1990 nobody has
operated on this account. I had a very careful study
of the account files through which I carried an
extensive investigation about the holder of the said
account and found out that Mr. Hogarth suddenly died
in a plane crash in 1990 thereby abandoning the
account, having been fictitious regards the
information he submitted to this bank at the time of
opening the account.
The account at this moment has no beneficiary since
the name Mr. Hogarth filled, as his next of kin has
no contact information in the form he submitted to
the bank. I have secretly removed all the relevant
files to the account from the dormant section so that
bank auditors will not verify the abandoned money and
refer it to Federal Treasury via CBN. Credit balance
of
the said account is US$45.250m (Forty-five million,
two
hundred and fifty United States Dollars)
My Dear Friend, the deal here is that the money in
this account will be approved and remitted to any
foreigner who shows up as next of kin to Mr. Hogarth
provided such person has correct information to the
account. I have such needed information and will hand
it over to you as soon as we commence the transaction.
I will source all necessary documents and forward them
to you for direct submission to the bank. With my
position as the foreign operations manager we will
quietly remove this money from the bank without
hitches.
I don,t have any problem in regularizing all
necessary documents and transferring the credit
balance of the said account to your nominated bank
account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I have
spent months in trying to get an overseas reliable
contact. It is worthy to note that people are
unreliable these days and even derive joy in telling
lies. On this ground I request your unreserved but
sincere cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out
this transaction so that no one amongst both of us
shall defraud each other at the end. I am prepared to
split at 60%---35% for you,provided that mine (60%)
will be intact at the end, and 5% for expense we may
encure during the transaction. Please get back to me
via email as a matter of urgency or call me on my
private
telephone line (234 8035492165)
Awaits your cooperation.
Best regards,
Williams
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