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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: Dr Jones Morgan <jmorganj@hushmail.com>
Reply-To: jonesmorganj@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:48:44 +0200
Subject: TO YOUR BEST ATTENTION
FROM J.Morgan
TO YOUR BEST ATTENTION,
PERSONNAL UPDATE
I am a senior banker in a bank here in the Republic of Benin. I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the success of this transaction would be provided and all will be well at the end of the day.
I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, the deceased person Mr David Van Buskirk and His Wife Mrs. Betty Van Buskirk, from San Diego died along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.WEBSITE:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). 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.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds $ 6,100 000 00 (Six million, one hundred thousand United State Dollars) which will be released in your favour as the next of kin. Because after seven years the money will be
Called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank.
Infect, it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst them selves at the end of the Year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
Reply immediately via the private email address below, upon your responses, I shall provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
Please upon your approval of this mail message, send to me only your private / official telephone and fax number. To enable us have a chart.
Warm Regards,
JONES MORGAN
jonesmorganj@netscape.net
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