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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: "Dr. Ofor Ofor" <drofor01@msn.com>
Reply-To: drchrisofor@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:04:41 +0000
Subject: From The Desk Of Dr. Chris Ofor
>From The Desk Of Dr. Chris Ofor
United Bank For Africa,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
I am Dr. Chris Ofor.,Branch Manager with United Bank For Africa,ILupeju
Branch, 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
Petrolum Corporation Mr. Abbas Gumarri 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 address but got no reply.After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers Nigerian
National Petrolum Corporation that Mr. Abbas Gumarri, died from Plane Crash.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Mr.Abbas Gumarri did not declare
any next of kin or relations 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 i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the next of kin of
our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $15.6
million 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 yourassistance would be needed to claim the
money in the Financial and Security Company in Europe.
I 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 genunely
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) Age/Sex
4) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached
5) A new email address for the transaction.
at all time because this transaction entailsconstant communication. The
transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities has
been perfected to ensurethe hitch free succesof the
transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via my private email
box as soon as possible so that we can proceed.
Best Regards,
Dr. Chris Ofor.
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