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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: "daniel dike" <danieldike55@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: daniel_dike22@yahoo.ca
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:51:31 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY
Attn: Pls,
Naturally, this letter will come to you as a
surprise,since we have not met, permit me however,
I am Barrister DANIEL DIKE and I am contacting you to kindly
assist me in the proposition below,
which will be of mutual benefit to us both.
PROPOSITION
A salvadorean, Mr. Ramirez Videurre, 66 years of age
and a very prosperous farmer made a huge bank
deposit for investment in the sum of US$21.2 Million (twenty one
Million, two hundred Thousand United States Dollars).
he named his wife Mrs. Helga Videurre as the NEXT OF
KIN .
I was called upon as an Accredited Attorney to the
bank to sign and endorse documents to this deposit on behalf of
Mr. Videurre. Unfortunately, Mr. & Mrs. Videurre were killed in
the March 30, earthquake that rocked El Salvador ,
killing thousands of people and 1200 others were
declared missing. The bank management now mandates
me being the lawyer that signed and endorsed the
deposit papers for the deceased to trace the family
relatives of the deceased so that the fund will be released to
them.I was made to understand that they had no children.
I made several efforts through the El Salvador High
Commission in Lagos to contact any of the deceased
family relatives, but to no avail.
Failure to reach any of the family relatives of the
deceased , the only option left is for the Bank Management to
declare the deceased account dormant and revert the fund on
trading and investment in the interest of the bank.
In order to avoid this development since it has so
far been impossible to trace any of the deceased family relatives.
I now seek your permission and assistance to have
you stand as a distant relatives to the deceased. So that the fund
can be released to you and we can use it for our mutual benefit. I
hope you do understand my concern in this matter is that if we do
not use this opportunity to claim this fund , since the deceased
relatives cannot betraced, the managementof the bank will declare the
deceased'saccount dormant and revert the fund on Trading and
Investment in the interest of the bank. For your assistance,
you will be compensated adequately with (40%) of thetotal sum (55%)
will be my own share while (5%) will be set aside tocover any
incidental expense made both at home and abroad prior to
thistransaction
.
If you are interested in assisting me with this matter,
please send to me urgently and unfailingly through my alternative EMAIL
harisonego@ayhoo.co.uk the following details below:
*Full name, Company or Private Address
*Telephone and Fax number(s).
Upon receiving the above details from you, I will
work out every documents/proof representing you as the deceased
BONA-FID distant relative and when this is done, you will be
contacted by the bank for the release and collection of this fund,
which will be within one week of my receiving the above details from
you.
. I will meetwith you in your country for disbursement after the
fund might have been released to you and also to discuss investment
potentials as I will like to invest in your country with your
assistance.
Be assured that this transaction is 100% risk
free,as I have taken care of all necessary modalities to enable a
hitch free transaction.
Kindly ensure to treat this matter in strict
privacy.(Highly Confidential).
yours faithfully,
Barrister DANIEL DIKE
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