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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: "William Mark" <williamark02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williamark02@myway.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:49:29 +0000
Subject: WISH TO HAER FROM YOU SOON
Dear Partner,
I n order to transfer the sum of GBP15m from our bank here in London.
I have the courage to look for a reliable person who will capable and honest
for this important transaction, believing that you will let my effort down
in future,
I am Mr. William Zack, the auditor and computing staff of.Barclays.Bank here
in the UK.
There is an account opened in this bank since 1995 and since 2001 nobody
have operated it, after my investigation in some files I could lay my hands
upon, I discovered that if I do not remit this urgent in an account
urgently, it will be confiscated by our bank.
The owner of this account is late Mr. John Hughes Coe and a manager of
petrol- chemical service and also an engineer here in London who died since
2001.
My dear, nobody knows about this account or anything about this account, it
is at this junctures that I deem your assistance to remit this money into
your account.
I am only contacting you as a friend and partner and as well a foreigner,
who will not betray me or try to cheat me when have received this money.
I know that this massage will come to you as a surprise as you do not know
both do I know you this transaction is real, and one hundred percent risk
free, and hoping you will be of immense assistance to each other when the
transaction has been concluded.
When the transfer is approved and payment schedule is allocated overseas
through our offshore payment representative for final clearance an signing
of the payment released form to you as the beneficiary of funds.
I want us to meet face in a round table meeting concern the success of this
transaction to discuss the percentage of sharing the money. Or sign a
binding agreement to bind us together in this transaction, so that we can
receive this money into your nominated Bank account or any account of your
choice.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner, where we can
receive these funds as the real beneficiary of money.
I need your co operation to make this dream a reality; I am ready to give
25% out of the total sum of money upon the conclusion of transaction with
you.
I need your assurance that we can work together to achieve.
I will use my position to destroy all the documents of this account leaving
no trace of the way about of the money and to effect legal approval and
onward transfer of this money to your appropriate account with appropriate
clearance from foreign payment department with assurance that this money
will be intact, pending my physical arrival at your country for sharing of
the money and other investment proposals.
Please reply this mail immediately,
Friendly
williamark
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