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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: "john Moore" <johnmoore300@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jmoore@accountant.com
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:35:48 -1000
Subject: Late ROBERT JACOBSON ESTATE
DEAR SIR
Please permit me to contact you through this medium. I know that the
contents
of this email will come to you as a surprise and may make you apprehensive
especially since it is coming from a total stranger but I hope you will
agree to my proposition. I look forward to your earliest reply a t my
private
email address at jmoore@accountant.com and please do not forget to include
your private telephone number and the best time to reach you (as a guide,
we are 1 hour ahead of GMT) so that I can give you a call to further discuss
my proposition and we can also get to know each other better. I am Mr. John
Moore, an accounts officer with Standard Trust Bank PLC, Marina Branch,
Lagos-Nigeria. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition
for you.
On June 6, 2000, an American Oil Consultant/Contractor with the Mobil Oil
Nigeria Ltd., Mr. Robert Jacobson, made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit
for twelve calendar months valued at US$10,000,000 (Ten Million United
States
Dollars) in my branch. We 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 Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd that
Mr. Robert Jacobson died on air crash in EAS Airline going to Abuja our
Federal Capital Territory on May 4, 2002. On further investigation, it was
found out that he died without making his "WILL", and all attempts to trace
his next of kin was fruitless. Further investigation also revealed that
he did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official
documents,
including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank.
This sum of US$10,000,000.00 is still sitting in my bank and the interest
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No
one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigeria law, at the
expiration of 5(Five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the
Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my
proposal is that I would want you to act as the next of kin to Mr. Robert
Jacobson (and it will appear as if you are the true next of kin) so that his
estates will be transferred
and paid to you. A bank account in any part of the world, which you will
provide will facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the
beneficiary.
The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of
60% for me and 40% for you and my plan is to invest my own share of the
money into real estate and stocks in your country. I decided to give you
this percentage in order to motivate you and also to let you feel satisfied
at the end of this transaction. This transaction is very simple and 100%
risk free and I hope that it will be of mutual benefit to both of us.
Therefore
I will like you to provide immediately your full name, private telephone
and fax numbers and address to enable me commence the process that will
put you in place as the next of kin.
Best regards,
Mr. John Moo re
Email: jmoore@accountant.com
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