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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: "VINCENT KELVIN ADEBAYO" <vinadebayo@msn.com>
Reply-To: adebayo9876@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:50:45 +0000
Subject: FROM PROVIDENCE FINANCIAL LONDON
From: Vincent Adebayo.
Provident Financial
Colonnade
Sunbridge Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 2LQ
My name is Vincent Adebayo.I am a member of staff of Provident Financial
here in London.I am writing following an oppurtunity in my branch that will
be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $35.5Million United
States Dollars(Thirty Five million five hundred thousand United States
Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.
Morris Thompson an American 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 about the crash on
visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot
release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the ballance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail
whether or not you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are
not interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no
one about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking/Insurance career
should you mention this to someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this
regard.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your response.
Please in your response include the following:
1) Your Telephone number for a better communication between us.
Hope to hear from you soon.
My Best regards
Vincent Adebayo.
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