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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: "Donald James" <donaldj147@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: donaldj147@tygo.com
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:27:31 -0600
Subject: FYI
ADONAI CHAMBERS
Solicitors & Advocates, Notary Public
# 23 karimu Ikotun Street
Lagos
Nigeria
Dear Friend,
I crave your indulgence to kindly attend to this mail in good faith. I
do not mean any disrespect by approaching you through this medium, It is due
to the
urgency of the matter. My name is Barrister Donald James, a legal
practitioner and the
personal Attorney to one Mr. Mark Sparling (now deceased), a national of
your country herein-after refered to as my client. My client late Mr. Mark
Sparling and his family were involved in a fatal auto crash along
Ibadan/lagos expressway on 5th of November 2000.
Unfortunately my client and his family died in the fatal accident. In fact
many of the accident victims were burnt to death. More reports on this issue
can be found in:
http: archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/06/crash.nigeria.death.reut/
My client was an oil magnet working with Chevron Oil Nigeria Plc. He left
behind a fixed deposit of Eleven Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars (USD$11.6) with a Financial Institution. Just after the death of my
client, the finance company contacted me as his Attorney to provide his next
of kin who should inherit this fortune. This
according to them was in accordance with the Financial Institution's policy
in such circumstances.
Well since the death of my client and his entire family, I have made several
enquiries
through his embassy to locate any of my client's close or extended relatives
but this
exercise had all the years been unsuccessful. I had to inform the finance
company about my fruitless effort in locating any of my client's close
relatives. The Board of Directors of the company has just adopted a
resolution and I was mandated to provide the Next of Kin for the payment of
this money within the next 15-working days or forfeit the money as
unclaimed funds.
The company had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1994 to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period of grace given to
me.
After an investigation in the finance company, I found out that some of the
Directors are planning to divert this funds into thier private accounts for
their personal use and only want to use the beneficiary or Next-of-Kin
excuse to achieve their nefarious objective. Well I have considered the
options open to us very carefully and professionally too and
I have decided to use a legal means to present you as the Next of Kin of my
deceased client. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance
with the laws of the Federation.
Consequently I seek your consent to be presented as the next of kin to the
deceased since you are a foreigner. I have all vitial documents that would
confer you the legal rights to make this claim and I will make them
available to you so that the proceeds of this bank account valued at
USD$11.6 Million can be paid to you before it gets confiscated or
declared unclaimed. Note that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I do sincerely sympathize the death of my client but I think it is
unreasonable for his
funds to be abandoned to the Federal Goverment of this country or some
finance company directors. My aim is to retrieve this funds and for this
singular reason I seek your assistance. Since I have not been able to locate
the relatives of my deceased client for over four (4) years now and since no
one has come for the claim I seek your consent once again to present you as
the Next of Kin of the deceased.
When we receive this money, it shall be shared between you and I in the
ratio of
40%:60%, which means you shall have 40% of the sum while the remaining 60%
shall be mine.
I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me immediately so that we can commence with the processing of the
claim at once.
For a smooth and unhindered processing of the claim please send the
following information to me:
Your Full Name(s), Address, Telephone and Fax (if any) Numbers. You can also
send your complete banking information If you like you can open new bank
account for the payment of the money. However this is optional as it is not
required at this stage.
Best Regards.
Barr Donald James (Esq)
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