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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: "barr ahmed ahmed" <barrahmed000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: aelrufai@eseenet.com
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:03:31 +0000
Subject: I hope this meets you in good health
From: Barrister Ahmed El-Rufai
Jauche & Associates Solicitors,
Corporate & Property Consultants
Lagos - Nigeria.
Dear Friend,
I hope this meets you in good health. My name is Barrister Ahmed
El-Rufai a Legal Practitioner and Attorney to late Mr. Ziya
Bazhayev,who died in the plane crash of Yak-40 jetliner on March
9, 2000. You may follow the Link below to read about the Plane
Crash my client lost his life:
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml&
http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml My late client
was an influential Wealthy Businessman,a Contractor in myCountry
and a big time Oil Dealer and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance
Company and he left behind a deposit of Fifteen Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollar(US$15,500,000.00USD) in his
Domiciliary Bank Account in a commercial bank here in Country. I
have employed every method to locate any of my clients extended
relatives but this exercise has proved unsuccessful, due to my
inability to locate any of his relative, I now have a view of
investing this fund with you, which is my main reason of
contactingyou. After the death of my client his Banker contacted
me,as his Attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit
his fortune. The board of Directors of his bank adopted a
resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the
payment of this money or forfeit the money to the bank as an
abandoned Estate. The bank had planned to invoke a clause in the
property Act, to confiscate the funds after the expiration of a
period given to me. In spite of this and at the point of
desperation, I came across your contact, while trying to locate
documentation's regarding possible relatives of my client in his
Country of Origin. I am believed to be convinced that you may be
able to act in locus for my late client as his next of kin, I
therefore, decided to contact you with these facts before me,
because of the status quo. By virtue of my brief and my closeness
to the deceased, I am very much aware of my client's financial
standing and the bank account he operated here in my country. I
have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally
proper to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client and
the sole beneficiary of his estate, so that you are be paid the
funds left in his bank account, hence I contacted you by seeking
your consent to present you as the Next of Kin. The bank needs
only the facts as to be presented legally. The rest is between you
and I and with my guidiance, we can have the money paid into your
account, once this is done we shall both share the funds. 50% to
me and 40% to you, while 10% would be for all Expenses and Taxes,
as the Law and Government may require, I shall assemble all the
necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up your claim.
All I require is your honesty and co-operation to enable us
succeed in this deal, I guarantee that this deal will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
Breach of law. Please get in touch with me upon the receipt of
this proposal.
Best Regards,
Barrister Barrister Ahmed El-Rufai (Esq).
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