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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: "Peter Adam" <peteradam3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peteradams_111@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:39:41 +0000
Subject: PLs reply me immediately??
>From The Desk Of Mr. Peter Adams,
Union bank of Nigeria ,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Peter Adams , Branch Manager with Union
bank of Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria. I have an urgent and
very profitable business proposition for you that
should be handled with extreme confidentiality. On
January 6, 1998 a Foreign Consultant and contractor
with the Nigerian Railway Corporation Mr. Abbas Gumeri
by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve
Calendar months valued at US$15.6M (Fifteen Million,
Six Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in
accordance with the Bank Policy to his forwarding
addresses but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers Nigerian Railway Corporation that Mr. Abbas
Gumeri died from an automobile accident. On further
investigation, we found out that he died without
making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of
kin were fruitless. I therefore made further
investigations and discovered that Mr. Abbas Gumeri
did not declare any Next of kin correlations in all
his official documents including his Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$15.6M has been carefully moved out of
my bank to a
Financial and Security Company in Europe for
safekeeping. No one will ever come forward to claim it
and according to the Law of my country, at the
expiration Of 7 years the money will revert to the
ownership of the State (Government) If nobody applies
to claim the fund. This prompted us to contact you. We
want you as the next of kin of our late client thereby
making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
$15.6Million U.S Dollars that is presently in a
Financial and Security
Company in Europe.
I contacted you because it is against our code of
Ethics to own and operate foreign accounts and your
assistance would be Needed to claim the money in the
Financial and Security Company in Europe. We have
unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be
for you if you agree to take part in this profitable
Transaction, 65% for me while the remaining 10% would
be used to pay back The expenses that may be incurred
during the course of the transaction by both parties
after the Fund has been claimed and lodged in your
account. In the event that you are genuinely
interested in the transaction, the following
information would be needed from you to expedite
action
1) Your Full Name.
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile, Telphone and Fax numbers
Where you can be reached at all time because this
transaction entails
Constant communication. The transaction is 100% legal
and totally free of risks as all Modalities have been
perfected to ensure the hitch free successor the
transaction. If you are interested, send the requested
information via email as soon as possible so that we
can proceed and after sending it urgently.
Best Regards,
Mr. Peter Adams
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