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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: "DOUGLAS CHIBU" <douglaschibu1@msn.com>
Reply-To: douglasc11@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:58:41 +0000
Subject: COMPLIMENT
Request for Business Relationship
To whom it may concern
My name is Mr.Douglas Chibu , the manager credit and foreign bills of
Hacobank of Nigeria. I am writing in respect of foreign customer of my bank
with account number 14-255-2004/utb/t who died in a plane crash (Ethiopian
airline 961) with other passengers abroad.Since the death of this customer,
I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all
has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of us$15.5m
(Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has
been with my bank for a very long time. On this note I decided to seek for
whose name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the
next of kin. In view of this I got your contact through my country‘s foreign
trade mission after I was convinced by providence that your name could be
used as the next of kin.The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Nigerian cannot stand as the next of kin to a foreigner.I agreed that
30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect of
providing a new bank account or we can use your old accountinformation,
while the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement as I am almost due for retirement. Therefore, to facilitate the
immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as a relation to the deceased indicating your private
telephone number, and fax number for easy communication and location where
the money will be remitted. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you
by fax or e-mail the application and the next step to take.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch-free and
that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement has
been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you.
Your respectfully,
Please reply here:douglasc11@yahoo.com
Dr. Douglas Chibu
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