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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. Gregory Kwado" <grkwa@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrgrkw@post.cz
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:49:56 +0000
Subject: Dear Goldberg
--Dear Goldberg,
With due trust, I come to you with this legitimate business of mine. I am Mr. Gregory Kwado, Manager Bills and Treasury Department of Universal Trust Bank of Nigeria Plc. I got your contact during my search for the relatives of one of our numerous customers who died accidentally alongside with his family.
During our routine check, I discovered an abandoned sum of ($15.8M USD) Fifteen Million, Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars in an account belonging to one of our foreign customers Mr. Robert Goldberg an expatriate who works with one of the Oil Company in Nigeria before his accidental death on Saturday 4th May 2002 via the ill-fated EAS Airline Crash.
Ever since then, several attempts have been made to locate his relatives without success. I discovered that all his supposed next of kin died with him. As he had no relatives to claim his money. I decided to look for the papers relating to the deposit in order to get this money. Now that all papers are ready with me, I am asking for your assistant to release the money to you for safekeeping and disbursement. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make you worried and apprehensive but I am assuring you not to worry, as all is perfectly well and arrangements have been perfected for a smooth operation. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remain unclaimed after period of years, will be transferred to Federal Government account as an unclaimed bill since nobody showed up for his money and I don't want to loose this money. The request of a foreigner to act as next of kin is that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free. All I require is your honest co-operation, sincerity to enable us conclude this deal and guarantee me of my own share after the transfer of the money to you. Due to the nature of this transaction, I advice that you maintain absolute confidentiality while it lasts.
Trusting to hear from you immediately to enable us proceed further.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Gregory Kwado.
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