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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. Tom" <thomasgraham005@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: thomasgraham2@ummah.org
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:57:37 +0200
Subject: Re: Compliments
From The Desk of: Thomas Graham
Head of Trustee and Depository
Institutional Fund Services.
HSBC Bank Plc 24th Floor
8 Canada Square
London E14 5hq.
Dear Friend,
Compliment to you and your family.
I am Mr. Thomas Graham, the Head of Trustee and Depository Institutional
Fund Services HSBC Bank Plc London. I am writing following an
opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 4.5million
British Pounds Sterling (Four million five hundred thousand
British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or relatives 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.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only
daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with
the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now
decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the
next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't
want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed
bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money
remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,
while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the
percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account.
Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this
transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail, you should contact me by return mail.
Please all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of
these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in
details when I do receive your response.Please in your response include your
telephone number for easy communication between us.
I look forward to your reply.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Thomas Graham
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