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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: "Steve John" <johnsteve1@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnsteve02@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:14:20 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK: MR.JOHN STEVE
FROM THE DESK: MR.JOHN STEVE
FOREIGN-OPERATIONS UNIT
NATWEST BANK PLC.
FREEPOST NAT12685
421 LOTHBURY,
LONDON EC2BP
UNITED KINGDOM.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of NATWEST BANK PLC. here in London. In my department we
discovered an abandoned sum of 15.5M POUNDS STERLING (Fifteen
million, five hundred thousand pounds) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,
Germany)who worked with Shell Oil Development London and died while
on holiday in Germany with his entire family in July 2000 in a
plane crash.
Please check the B.B.C news link below for more information on his
death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or
relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody
behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect for the
provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 60% would be for me. Thereafter, I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. To enable the immediate transfer of this fund
to you arranged.
You must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased , you will be required to provide for me your full
name ,permanent address and private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will
be
remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your
notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been
made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately you
receive this letter.
Please ensure to keep our transaction strictly confidential until
the
fund remittance is complete.
I await your reply.
Yours faithfully,
MR.JOHN STEVE
FOREIGN-OPERATION UNIT.
NATWEST BANK PLC.
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