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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: "Mr. Michael Scott" <michael.scott1000@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: micheal.scott3030@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:25:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: TREAT WITH UTMOST URGENCY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: michael.scott1000@yahoo.com
Greetings,
I hope this mail will not come to you as a surprise. I got your contact through your country's International Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C) and decided to contact you for a mutual business relationship. I am Mr. Michael Scott, a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $12,500,000.00USD (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers late Mr. Paul Philip of United States Of America who happened to be an independent oil marketer who died along with his entire family a wife and two children on 21st November 2001 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims to his money as the heir, as we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund and it is in our banking guideline that if none of the relatives come up to claim this fund after five years of the death of the late customer, the fund will be regarded as an unclaimed bill and will be transferred to the bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund which we do not want. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 30% for you as a foreign partner, 65% for us the officials in my department and 5% for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred by you and us during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65% we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:
1. Your private telephone and fax number.
2. Your country of origin and residence.
3. Your contact address.
4. Your age.
5. Full name.
6. Private email address.
Upon the receipt of this, I will in turn get back to you and give you the modalities for the bank to approve you as the next-of-kin. Note also, this transaction must be kept confidential because of its nature as I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Best Regards
Mr. Michael Scott
NOTE: Please get back to me at my private email: michael.scott3030@yahoo.com
- Mr. Michael Scott
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