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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: "magaret giwa" <magaret00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: giwa_mrs@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:13:22 +0000
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!! (AN URGENT PLEA FROM MRS.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I send you this e-mail with all humility and every seriousness of heart;
believing that you will be the instrument God will use to help me and my
two daughters in this predicament due to the unfortunate death of my
husband. But I hope and so believe you will lift off this burden from my
shoulder. I am Mrs. Margaret Olufunmilayo Giwa, wife of late Chief Micheal
Rufus Foluso Giwa, the erstwhile Chairman/Managing Director of Unilever
Nigeria Plc.
(formerly Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited) who died on Wednesday, March
26, 2003 along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in a ghastly motor accident while
travelling to his home town in Ondo State.
My predicament started with the tradition of property-grabbing on my late
husband's properties by his family. What followed after was that I and my
children were asked to vacate my matrimonial home by my late husband's
brothers so that they can absorbed with all my late husband's properties a
month after his funeral, relying on tribal traditions (beliefs and custom
of their clan) just because I did not bear a male child for my husband
before his death whom they believed would have inherited his estates.
This suddenly destitute me as a widow and had to scrambled to get help
from a member of our Church who through her humane kindness, gave us (I and
my two daughters) an apartment to lay our heads in her house. As the
beneficiary next-of-kin to my late husband's "Domiciliary Account" (Dollar
Account) he was operating with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. before the
incident that led to his death, I was fortunate to have left the house with
all the vital documents relating to the account which had a closing balance
of $9,690,000.00 (Nine Million, Six Hundred and Ninety Thousand United
States Dollars). When I visited the bank last week, the Branch Manager
reliably informed me that I can come for the claim of the funds at any
point in time and when so desired.
The truth of the matter right now is that I cannot make use of this funds
here due to the forces surrounding me concerning my late husband's family
hence the reason why I am soliciting for your assistance to help me and my
children out of this situation before my late husband's brothers gets to
know where we are staying and equally seized the documents to this funds
from me. All I need from you is your trust and honesty to assist me in
this situation by providing me your contact address and bank account
details so that I can immediately instruct the bank to have the funds
transfered to your bank account before any of my late husband's brothers or
family gets to know about it.
I strongly believe that the only way I can secure the funds for myself
and my children is to have the funds transfered overseas and after you must
have received and confirmed the funds in your account, I and my children
would then make appropriate travelling arrangement to come and meet with
you in your country. I have mapped out and agreed that if you can help me
in this matter, you will retain 20% of the total funds, while 80% will be
for me and my children. For more information on the controversial exit of
my husband, you can get the full import of the story on ThisDay Newspapers,
one of Nigeria's dailies on Page 1 (front page) of Thursday, March 27th,
2003 edition at ThisDay's website: www.thisdayonline.com or any other
Nigerian newspaper or newsmagazine of the same date or thereafter.
I thank you most sincerely, for your time and your anticipated assistance
and I look forward to hearing
from you soon. May Almighty God bless you!
Sincerely,
MRS. MARGARET O. GIWA
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