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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: "Bello Lawal" <blbllawal@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bellolawal022@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:58:49 -0700
Subject: Mr bello lawal
From: bello lawal (General Manager).
Union Bank of Nig Plc.
42 Agege Road Lagos-Nigeria
Attention Please,
I am pleased to introduce myself to you. My name is
Mr.bello lawal a native of Nigeria and the General Manager of the Union Bank
of Nigeria Plc, Lagos ? Nigeria .
I am contacting you in regards to a business transaction of the sum of money
from a deceased account (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), who was a business man to
Pacific Coast Oil Company, Lagos- Nigeria.
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 this business transaction by the special grace of almighty God
believing that you can never let me down either now and after you have
receive the money.
I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction because I am
the General manager of said bank specify above. I am contacting you because
of the need to involve o foreigner ith a foreign account as the real
beneficiary.
I need your full co-operation, Trust and Honest to make this work
successful, because the management is ready to approve this payment to any
foreigner who has the correct information to our late customer.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the
legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from foreign payment department. With assurance that
this money will intact pending my physical arrival in your country for
the sharing and other investment.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
customers (DR. DAVID VAN BUSKIRK), a Foreigner, who died along with the
passagers and crew aboard Egypt air flight 990, which crashed into the
atlantic ocean on October 31, 1999 with his lovely wife (MRS. BETTY VAN
BUSKIRK) and his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or
relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.
We cannot release the fund 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, we now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations
will be carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$10,500,000.00) to be
released in your favor
as the beneficiary's next of kin.
It may interest you to note that we have secured
from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries. Please, acknowledge the receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the
following through my above email address;
1. Your full names, address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.
These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your
favor before the transfer can be made and this take place after my
conversation with you on telephone. We shall be compensating you with 25%
of the total money on final conclusion of this project while the rest
shall be for me and my staff. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do
not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you.
I await your urgent response and note that you are the only person
I have contacted only you for now and any delay will make me
to contact another person for the same transaction.
May God bless us, Amen?
Your sincerely,
Mr bello lawal
General Manager
Union Bank of Nig Plc
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