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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 Williams" <p_williams_002@msn.com>
Reply-To: peter_williams@surimail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:00:59 +0000
Subject: FROM PETER WILLIAMS
Mr.Peter Williams
FOREIGN-OPERATION UNIT.
ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC.
Attention: Sir,
Good Day I am Mr. Peter Williams, the manager
of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC. here in
Nigeria. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$7.2M(Seven million, two hundred
thousand United States Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS
SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany)who worked with Shell
Oil Development Nigeria and died while on holiday in
Germany with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane
crash.
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.
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 mail. Please
ensure to keep our transaction strictly confidential
until the fund remittance is complete.
I await your reply.
Yours faithfully,
MR.Peter Williams
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