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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: "Mr.Frank B.F" <withmrfrank@msn.com>
Reply-To: withmrfrank@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:05:31 +0000
Subject: URGENT...NEXT OF KIN...URGENT
ATTENTION:
Firstly, let me apologise to you for instruding into
your privacy AND FOR USING THIS HEADER.
I'm Looking for Leaders! This will be quick and easy.
No hype. I'm looking for people who can recognize an
opportunity when they see one and then act on it. If
it takes a bunch of hype to motivate you or help you
make a decision, you can stop here.
For the past year, I've been looking for what I feel
is the perfect Person to reveal this to,
I'm happy to say, that after looking at hundreds of
"opportunities", I've finally found the winner. If
you're the kind of person I'm looking for, you will
have the opportunity to benefit from this mutually
beneficial information.
Here's what I have to share.
I am MR FRANK .B .F. I am the Personal Bank
Accounts officer to MR Christian Eich Mason, who
worked for a Multinational company in Europe and has a
Bank account with a deposit of Twelve Million United
States Dollars in the Bank where I work till date. On
the 31th of July 2000, my client, his wife and their
two Children died in the Air France concord plane crash bound for New York
in their plan for a world cruise,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event
of the accident, Since then I have made several
enquiries to locate any of my client,s extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts,
I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet
to locate any member of his family but to no avail,
hence I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repartriating The sum
stated above as the next of kin of Christian Eich
Mason as the bank has issued me a
notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days.
since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the
relatives for over 6years now. I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased so
that the proceeds of this account valued at $12million
U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can
share the money. 55% to me and 40% to you,while 5%
should be for expenses or tax as your government may
require. I have all necessary legal documents that can
be used to back up all claim we may make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us
discuss further.Moreso,I will appreciate if you
indicate your telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication in this mutual transaction. You can
respond through this email account above, or through
my alternate and personal email address below,
withmrfrank@yahoo.ca OR frank2000fido@asiamail.com
And please i appeal to you that if you are not
instrested in assisting me, please delete this message
and forget i ever contacted you.
Yours FAithfully,
MR Frank B.F.
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