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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: "BELL GEOFFREY" <geof_bellrey@msn.com>
Reply-To: bgeoffrey2@ny.com
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:02:06 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
From: Geoffrey Bell
Private Email: bgeoffrey2@ny.com
Date: Feb 7th, 2006.
Inheritance Fund
Dear Friend,
I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics, but
please treat it with absolute secrecy and personal courtesy.
I am Geoffrey Bell an Auditor of a commercial Bank here in the United
Kingdom, in the process of auditing our bank accounts I and one of my
colleagues discovered that there is a dormant account valued at the sum
£18,700,000.00 (eighteen million seven hundred thousand British Pounds) and
after due verification of this account we discovered that the account owner
is late and that is why the account has been dormant and as such a
£18,700,000.00 has been lying in the bank unclaimed. The idea of presenting
somebody who is not related to our deceased customer to act as his next of
kin came into our mind, that is how and why we have contacted you to present
you as his next of kin, so that the £18,700,000.00 will be paid to you and
we can both disburse the fund according to the percentage we will agree on.
In view of this, I am seeking for your co-operation and understanding to
stand as the next of kin to our deceased customer, to enable us claim the
fund from my bank. Hence, if this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish
to take undue advantage of my trust, then I hope to bestow on you. Please
kindly get back to me immediately, strictly via my private email address
only: bgeoffrey2@ny.com to enable me enlightens you on how we are to
proceed. On getting your response, we shall agree on the percentage of
disbursing the £18,700,000.00 between us, as we intend to invest part of our
own share in real estate business in your country, and we would appreciate
if you can put us in the right part investing in your Country.
I will not contact any person or company until I hear from you, so as to
enable me decides on what to do next. Be rest assured that this business is
100% risk free.
We wait for your prompt response.
Regards,
Geoffrey Bell
NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE NOT RELATED TO MY LATE
CUSTOMER; THE FUND WILL STILL BE PAID TO YOU, SINCE WE ARE PRESENTING YOU AS
HIS NEXT OF KIN.
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