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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Ray Leyden" <rayleyden03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rayleyden@ny.com
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:37:26 +0000
Subject: REVERT TO ME
Dear Friend,
I am contacting you in transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased
client's account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will
make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will
be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the
urgency
of this transaction and because you bear same surname with my late
client.
PROPOSITION:
I discovered the total sum of US$28.300,000.00 (Twenty eight million
three
hundred thousand United States dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his
death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay
claims
for this money as the theirs, and these funds cannot release from his
account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next-of-kin to the deceased so that these be approved and released in
your
favour as the beneficiary's next-of-kin so that you and i will share
the
benefit.
I am looking forward to your response ,to go ahead with this
transaction.reply me
Regards,
Ray leyden
First Bank Nigeria Plc
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