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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: "Simeon Johnson" <simeonjohnson01@msn.com>
Reply-To: simeonjohnson3@myway.com
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:52:45 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
Dear Friend,
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am the manager Bills
and Exchange of Foreign
Remittance Office of Equitorial Trust Bank Plc. In accordance with Federal
Government Policies on
indeginization Law on company and Allied matters of Jan 1972. I am writing
you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this
transaction.
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5 Million (Twenty Million, Five
Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
Foreign customer who died along side his entire family on 21st of April,
1999 in an auto crash along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. Their bodies were kept
in the mortuary for five months to enable the Police carry out proper
investigation and possibly locate their surviving relatives. They checked
through all public files, records and embassies and all efforts proved
abortive. Since this development, we have advertised for his next of kin or
any close relative to come forward to claim this money, but nobody came to
apply for the claim.
To this effect, I have decided to look for a trusted foreign partner who
can stand in as the next of kin to the deceased and claim this money. A
foreign partner is required to apply for the claim because of the fact that
the customer was a foreigner and we don't want this money to go into the
Bank's Treasury as unclaimed fund.
Every documentation shall be done in accordance with the banking law and
guidelines, So you have nothing to worry about. As a matter of business, 35%
of the money will be for you, 5% for expenses incurred on both parties while
60% will be for myself.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legal arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. I await your immediate reply to
enable us start this transaction in earnest. Once I receive your reponse
indicating willingness to assist in the realization of this transaction, I
shall send you an elaborate email explaining the procedure and subsequently
a Text of Application which you have to send to the bank for immediate of
claims of the funds.
I look forward to receiving your immediate response.
Have my best regards and God bless you. Do reply to my
alternative email address: simeonjohnson3@myway.com
Simeon Johnson.
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