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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 Wong Lim Keat" <wing_limmm@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:23:09 -0700
Subject:
ATTENTION:
Late Hartford Rocha,A national of your country.In
the
course of our auditng I discovered a flaoting fund
in
an account in the Bank company which was opened in
2002 belonging to a dead foreigner(Hartford Rocha).
I am the Auditor of Wing Hang Bank,Ltd Having made a
very frantic and exhaustive search for any family
member that would lay claim to this fund, I decided
to
take my chance with you.I now seek your permission
to
have you stand as next of kin to the deceased as I
have all documentations including his certified
Death Certificate that will facilitate your stand as next
of
kin to him as he had a closing balanced of
US$25,500,000.00 here in our bank in Central,Hong
Kong.
I will want to move the sum of $25.5M from the bank
of
Wing Hang,Ltd to your shores .
I therefore made further investigation and
discovered
the No declaration of any kin or relations in all
her
official documents,including the Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$25.5M is still
sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled
over with the principal sum at the end of each year.
No one will ever come forward to claim it. According
to Laws of Republic of Hong Kong, at the expiration
of
5 (five) years, the money will revert to the
ownership
of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to
claim
the fund.I cannot release the fund from the account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin
as
indicated in our banking guidelines.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as
a
foreigner to stand in as the beneficiary since you
both have the same last name, so that these cohorts
in
power will not take over this benefit.
I am therefore write to ask you that you quietly
partner with me or look for a reliable and honest
personality or organisation that will be capable of
providing an account or would be capable of seting up
a new one that will serve the purpose of receiving
this fund.Even an empty account can also serve as
long
as there will be honesty to us till the end of the
transaction and I hope you will never let me down.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internal
filing of your name in form A2, T12 and other vital
forms as next of kin
I am ready to give you the sum of $9,500,000 ($9.5M)
for you assistance and partnering with me. I look
foward to your prompt.
Best Regards
Wong Lim Keat
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