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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: "JONATHAN JONES" <jonathan_jones202@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jonathanjones_2006@operamail.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:08:45 -0800
Subject: Need your reply
FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Jonathan P. Jones Port Harcut Branch
Manager, UBA (Bank) Nig. Plc.
ATTENTION,
I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company
to handle a confidential transaction UN behalf of my colleagues and my self
I felt you can be trusted to handle a transaction of this magnitude. One of
our esteemed customers that holds a British passport Mr. TARANTINO '66 years
of age and Director of Gulf Atlantic oil company had in our Bank the sum of
us$22m in a domiciliary account. His wife, Mrs. Helga TARANTINO as the next
of kin. Unfortunately, both of them died in the terrorist bomb attack in the
under ground tube in London .
Efforts had been made by the management of my Bank in Port Harcut Rivers
State of Nigeria to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail,
as we were made to understand that the couple had no child owing to the
skeletal information available to the Bank, it has so far been impossible to
reach any of the relatives. The option left for the Bank management is to
declare the deceased account dormant and revert the fund to trading on
behalf of and in the interest of the Bank in order to avoid this
development, my colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand
as a distant relative/next of kin to Mr. and Mrs. A.TARANTINO so that the
funds will be released to you.
All documents and proofs to enable you get the funds will be carefully
worked out on our receiving your consent to this proposal, we would
immediately obtain for an order of mandamus from the Federal High court of
justice on your behalf recognizing you as a bonafide relative to the
deceased and subsequently apply for the release of the funds to you as the
beneficiary, through the central Bank of Nigeria.
May I assure you that this transaction is 100%risk free, as we have taken
care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch free transaction. To this
effect my colleagues and I have agreed to compensate you with 10% of the
total sum us$12m for your kind assistance i.e. provisions of a nominated
foreign account to accommodate the fund for us. If this proposal is
acceptable to you, please contact me strictly through my e-mail address.
jonathanjones_2006@operamail.com
Best regards
Mr. Jonathan P. Jones
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