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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: "Williams Zwabo" <williamszwabo_org@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:53:15 +0000
Subject: Can i trust you call me immediately +2348034392807
FROM THE DESK OF:BARRISTER WILLIAMS ZWABO
WILLIAMS ZWABO AND ASSOCIATES.
(BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS-AT-LAW)
NO: 287 ABOYADE COLE STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIA
TEL:+2348034392807
Reply To:barr_williamszwabo30@zipmail.com.br
Attn: Dear Friend,
I am Barrister Williams Zwabo, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney to late Mr. Robert Chapman the African Area Director of SIL
International,who unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight
431 in Abidjan,Ivory Coast, January 30 2000 you will read more stories about
the crash on visiting this
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html and also in
this website, where Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya
crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife
there.Mr.Robert Chapman Hailed from Hamilton,united state of America.
Since the death of Robert Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have
made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any
success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my
personal searching for Robert Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact
you for this project.I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Robert Chapman
, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable bank where my client
operates an account worth $USD7.5 Million Dollars. They has issued me a
notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the
claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared
unserviceable.
Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Robert Chapman's
relatives for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to
present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a
foreigner,so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD7.5 Million
Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments.
I and my team have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum,Upon
successful remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside
to cover all expenses incurred both local and international, during the
course of this transfer,while 70% will be for me and my team.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business
successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.
Robert Chapman was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow
his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of
Eco bank plc .Further details awaits your response by email.
PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.Do not hesitate to include
your private phone and fax number, when replying this proposal,you can also
email me on this alternative email:
Yours faithfully,
Barrister Williams Zwabo
Call Me:+2348034392807
Reply To:barr_williamszwabo30@zipmail.com.br
NOTE:I HAVE GIVEN THE SAME INFORMATIONS TO MY COLLEAGUES IN MY CHAMBERS AND
OUTSIDE THE CHAMERS TO HELP ME GET SOMEONE TO HELP ME,BUT THEY ARE USING IT
TO DEFRAUD PEOPLE.BE CAREFULL WHO CONTACT YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU GET BACK TO
ME AND SEND ALL INFORMATION GIVEN TO YOU BY THESE IMPOSTORS.
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