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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: "Davies Mark" <d_mark01@msn.com>
Reply-To: d_mark2@msn.com
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:18:06 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT
From The Desk of the Vice President
Custody and Clearing Dept
HSBC Bank Plc 24th Floor
8 Canada Square, London E14 5hq
www.hsbc.co.uk
Email: d_mark2@msn.com
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a hugh sum of
money from a deceased account. 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 the day. We decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million
Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who
died along with 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$20,000,000.00) to be released in your
favour 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 receipt ofthis message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following; 1. Beneficiary name and
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 favour before
the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 2 Million
Dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be
for
us. Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes.
If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me only through my
confidential email ddress:d_mark2@msn.com . and the private phone
number
I shall provide in recipient of your response to my proposal.This is
because my official lines are not totally secure lines as they are
periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line
with our Total Quality Management Policy. You can as well click on this
link below and click on my names on the page to know what I am
talking about.
http://www.hsbcnet.com/hsbc/home/contact-us/europe/united-kingdom
Please observe this instruction religiously. I send you this mail not
without a measure of fear as to what the consequences may be,but I know
within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and
riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have
bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail.
Regards,
Yours Truly,
Davies Mark
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