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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: "andrew brown" <andrewbrown000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: andrewbrown@o2.pl
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:29:41 +0000
Subject: GOODDAY WITH TRUST
21 Campshill Road
Se13 6qu Lewisham
London England.
Attention:
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be
treated as such. I must solicit your confidentiality and assure you that I
am
contacting you in good faith and this proposal will be of mutual
benefit. I am Andrew brown, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney/sole
executor to the late Mr. Mark hereinafter referred to as 'my client'
who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a
car crash with his immediate family in east London on the 5th of November
2000.
My late client a formal Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil
here in the United Kingdom and had left behind a deposit of Nine Million
Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling only (£9.8million) with a
finance company. After the death of my client, the finance company contacted
me, as his attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit his
fortune;
this according to them is their policy in sure circumstances. Since the
death of my client, I have written several letters to the embassy with
intent to
locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries
of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.
I had to inform the finance company about my fruitless effort in
locating my late client close relative or his next of kin. The board of
directors
of the company just adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his
next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official
working
days or forfeit the money as an abandoned funds. The company had planned to
invoke the abandoned property decree of the company to confiscate the
funds after the expiration of the period given me. Also I have received
official letters in the last two days suggesting a likely proceeding for
confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws of
the
institution.
Well I have reason very professionally and I can use a legal means to
present a next of kin of my deceased client. This is legally possible
and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I
decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar
last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent,
present you to the "trustee" as my late client's family member so as to
enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin
of my client. I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you are of
the same nationality and you bear a similar last name with my late client
making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. I have
all
vital documents that would confer you the legal right to make this claim and
would make them available to you so that the proceeds of this bank account
valued at £9.8million can be paid to you before it gets confiscated or
declared unserviceable to the bank where this huge amount is lodged.I do
sincerely sympathize the death of my client but I think it is unprofitable
for
his funds to be submitted to the government of this country or some
financial institution. My aim is to retrieve this fund and let it be claimed
by
the deceased family name, etc. for this I seek your assistance since I have
been unable to locate the relatives for the past 4year now and since no one
has come for the claim. I seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin of the deceased since you have the same last name giving you the
advantage
so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Then we talk
percentage. I know there might be other persons out there with the same
surname as my last client, but after a little check my instinct tells
me to contact you. Can I trust you on this? I shall assemble all the
necessary documents that will be used to back up your claim.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of law. I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you shouldn’t
entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the
completion of
this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.
Please get in touch with me by my alternative mail:
Andrewbrown.private@yahoo.com for better confidentiality and send to me
your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further on this
transaction. My contact number is +4478367902702 if this proposal is
acceptable by
you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you,
Thanks for your understanding.
Kind Regards.
Andrew brown.
Phone: +4478367902702
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