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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: "John Mensah" <jon_mensah50@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jon_mensah101@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:53:19 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal
Dear,
It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter, which I believe will be a
surprise to you as we have never met before, and I am deeply sorry if I have
in any manner disturbed your privacy. Please forgive this unusual manner of
contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very
private nature. There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust
in your heart in respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many
individuals have taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their
nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and
legitimate business class persons to get attention and recognition. There is
no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my
duty to write and reach out to you.
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of International Commercial
Bank of Ghana (ICB) .In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$10.5m US dollars (Ten Million five hundred thousand US dollars). In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his
entire family in 1998 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin (We want to present you as his business
associate ) to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.
I will give you more vital details when I receive your response for security
reasons.
Yours faithfully,
John Mensah
Accounts & Audit Department ,
International Commercial Bank of Ghana (ICB)
Nb. Also give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication
with you.
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