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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: "james peters" <james_peters740@msn.com>
Reply-To: jamespeters@k.ro
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:28:46 +0000
Subject: READ AND GET BACK TO ME
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Barrister James Peters a solicitor at law,i am also a member of
British
bar association,i am the personal attorney to Mr.Tony Rodgers who
used
towork with Standard Oil
Company in England.my client, his wife and their three children
were involved in a car accident along capella road,northwest,Londonon
21August 2003. All occupants
of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made
several inquiriesto his embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives this hasalso proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last
name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his
family,then i found your email address and decided to contact you to
assist
in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge
deposits
were lodged. Particularly, the Baclays bank where the deceased had an
account valued at about 10 million pounds has issued me a notice to
provide
the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next
ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over a
year and
six months now I seek your consent to present you as the nnext of kin
of the
deceased as a foreigner,so that the proceeds of this account valued at
10
million pounds can be paid to you and then you and me can share the
money.
65%
to me and 35% to you I have all necessary legal documents that can be
used
to back up any claim we may make. All I require
is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email and send to me your telephone
and
fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this transaction.
Best regards,
Barrister James Peters
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