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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: "dan okoye" <oct1962@msn.com>
Reply-To: okoye62@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:45:28 +0000
Subject: Next of Kin Needed.
Hello friend,
I am contacting you from Africa. My name is Okoye Dan. I work with the
Insurance bank group, Nigeria main branch.Please do not get upset as to how
I got your contact. I got your
email contact from the Internet. I sincerely advise that you calm down to
read below
proposal thoroughly and thereafter decide if we can do the business
together. It is no setup or one of these hoaxes from Africa. This is a real
deal and I mean every word I speak here.
A UK citizen, Mr. Norman Anderson (from Aberdeen) has been a customer of my
bank since 1999. He opened a domiciliary account with us in June 1999. The
said bank account, which is at the moment in dormant, is in UK pounds
sterling and has credit balance of 47.3M pounds. Last transaction carried on
the account dates back to September 15, 2001. I have been the account
owner?s confidant and account officer until above date when he was last seen
in the bank. And since this time Mr. Anderson has not been to the bank nor
sent in cheque for clearing. This became a source of worry to me and
prompted my personal investigation as to whereabouts and business activity
of this customer.
Result of my investigation revealed that he was into oil bunkering and
operated within West and Central Africa sub-regions. Further investigation
proved that he was one of the victims of November 2002 raid of illegal oil
bunkering merchants in Malabo Island of Equatorial Guinea.
However, I continued my investigation and further discovered that a UK
telephone number mentioned in our bank information form, which he filled
when the said bank account was
established, belong to a hotel in London. This is a clear indication that he
probably has fed my bank with false information to protect his illegal oil
deals. I have not disclosed these findings to anyone else except this
message to you.
After a careful study of the account file and available data to me, I have
packaged a good deal as follows; and will wish to carry it out with you. My
Dear Friend, the deal here is that the money in this account will be
approved and remitted to any foreigner who shows up as relation to Mr
Anderson provided such person has correct information to the account. I have
such needed information and will hand it over to you as soon as we commence
the transaction.
I will source all necessary documents and forward them to you for direct
submission to the bank. With my position as the foreign operations manager
we will quietly remove this money from the bank without hitches. I don?t
have any problem in regularizing all necessary documents and transferring
the credit balance of the said account to your nominated bank account in
overseas, but the problem is trust. I have spent months in trying to get an
overseas reliable contact. It is worthy to note that people are unreliable
these days and even derive joy in telling lies. On this ground I request
your unreserved but sincere cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out
this transaction so that no one amongst both of us shall defraud each other
at the end. I am prepared to split at 60%---40% for you, provided that mine
(60%) will be intact at the end.This is my direct email;okoye62@yahoo.com
Awaits for your expected co-operation.
Best regards,
Okoye Dan
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