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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: "mr.alex tucker" <atamk0004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mcaemailexecutive2@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:13:13 +0200
Subject: From Mr.Alex Tucker.
Mr.Alex Tucker.
220 Balham High Road
Central London W17 7BQ
United Kingdom.
Hello ,
I have a business proposal which I believe might interest you. I believe
that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid to transfer the sum
of (£18.5M.) Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds into a
foreign bank account.
I am ,Mr Alex Tucker,an Auditor of a bank here in London.
During the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in 1999 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this
account.After a lot of investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank
account died without a beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not
remit this money out it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of the account is a foreigner. He died since 2000 and the bank
account has no other beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody
knows about this account or anything concerning it. So I want to grab this
opportunity, as it is no harm to nobody.
I am here soliciting for your assistance as a foreigner because the money
cannot be approved to anybody here. But It can be approved to a foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign bank
account because the former owner of the account is a foreigner. The
management must approve this payment to you if you have the correct
information of this account, which I will give to you,upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
project.
With my influence and the position of the bank officials, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival at
your end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign bank account or an empty
account can serve to receive this money.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be give 20% of the total
amount, 75% will be for the bank official and I, while 5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during the course of this
transaction. People might try sending to you similar letter earlier or
after, Please ignore all of them because they are just monitoring the
business as agents. I am reposing my full confidence in you now . untill I
hear from you.
May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to
take.Send also your private phone and fax number including the full details
of the bank account to be used for the deposit.You can call me now.
phone..+44-7236740312 and email me at atamexecutive@hotmail.com
Regards.
Mr.Alex Tucker.
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