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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: "michael scott" <michael_scott2000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michael.scott001@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:22:21 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED FROM YOU
Compliments of the season,
I am Mr. Michael Scott, a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing
this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this
business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family a wife and two
children on 22nd December 2000 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir, as 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. Unfortunately, neither
their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said
fund. It is in our banking guideline that if none of the relatives come up
to claim this fund after five years of the death of the late customer, the
fund will be regarded as an unclaimed bill and will be transferred to the
bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to
make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an
account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund by the begining of the year. We have agreed that
our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 30% for you as foreign partner,
65% for us the officials in my department and 5% for the settlement of all
local and foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this
business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65% we intend
to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the
fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:
1. Your private telephone and fax number.
2. Your country of origin and residence.
3. Your contact address.
4. Your age.
5. Full name.
Upon the receipt of this, i will inturn get back to you and give you the
mordalities for the bank to approve you as the next-of-kin. Note also, this
transaction must be kept confidential because of its nature. I look forward
to receiving your prompt response. Please get back to me at my private
email: michael.scott001@yahoo.com
Best Regards
Mr. Michael Scott
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