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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: "Dr.Robin Quest" <citibank_info@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: robinquest_info@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:08:51 +0000
Subject: from the Office of Auditor General, CITIBANK london
Dear Sir
I am Dr. Robin Quest the Auditor General of CITIBANK 364 Kensington High St
London W14 8NS. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for
you. On May20, 1999, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the
BRITISH PETROLUEM CORPORATION MR. DARA BARAZ. Made a numbered time (Fixed
deposit) for 24 calendar months,valued at US$20,200,000.00 (Twenty Million
two hundred thousand dollars only) in this bank.Upon maturity in 2002, I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr. Dara Baraz
died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during one of his
trips to his country Iraq. On further investigation, I found out that he
died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that mr
Dara Baraz did not declare any kin or relations in all his official
documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$20,200,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since 1999 in
my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British law at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund and the six years is the end of NOVEMBER 2005. Consequently,
my proposal is that i want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in
as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so that the
bank will transfer the money to your desi gnated account. All documents and
proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have
secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries, and more so I are assuring you that the business is risk free
involvement.
Your share stays while the rest be for me and for investment purpose as i
will leave London by the end of the year. The sharing of the funds will be
based According to agreement within me and you. As soon as i receive an
acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary modalities and
disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust i
have bestowed in you.
Regards.
DR. ROBIN QUEST
I will like to know you better and therefore you are
expected to send to me your CV as well as any other
means of proper Identification. Even though the
transaction will be based on mutual trust.
Please if this proposal interests you,contact me
via emails (robinquest_oag@o2.pl)
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