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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: "joe Bueze" <joebueze12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: joebueze@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:38:00 +0000
Subject: Assistant Needed
Dear Friend,
Naturally, this letter will come to you as a surprise, since we have
not met, permit me however, I am Barrister.Jonathan Micheal, I am
contacting you to kindly assist me in the Project below, which will be of
mutual
benefit to us both.
A salvadorean, Mr. Ramirez Cathy, 66 years of age and a very
prosperous farmer made a huge bank deposit for investment in the sum of
US$17.5
Million (Seventeen Million, Five hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) he named his wife Mrs. Helga Cathy as the NEXT OF KIN . I was
called upon as an Accredited Attorney to the bank to sign and endorse
documents to thisdeposit on Mr.Cathy's behalf. Unfortunately, Mr. &
Mrs.Cathy were killed in the January 14, earthquake that rocked El
Salvador, killing thousands of people and 1,200 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 for the Bank's Management is 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, if we do
not use this opportunity to claim this fund,since the deceased
relatives cannot be traced, the management of the bank will declare
the deceased's account 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
the total sum (55%) will be my own share while (5%) will be set aside to
cover any incidental expense made both at home and abroad prior to this
transaction . If you are interested in assisting me with this
matter,please send to me urgently via my EMAIL 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-FIDE 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 meet with you in your
country for disbursement after the fund might have been released to
you andn 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 (HighlyConfidential).
Yours sincerely,
Barrister.Jonathan Micheal.
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