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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: "peter loen" <peterloen0110@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peterloen33@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:26:15 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL
MR. PETER LOEN
Chief Accountant:African Development Bank of South Africa
Private Tel-27-83-623-6226
Private Fax-27-11-507-5531
Dear Friend,
I am,MR. PETER LOEN,the Chief Accountant African Development Bank South
Africa.I got your address while searching for trustworthy individuals in
various countries.ln my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of
$25,5million US dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died in an auto accident with his family in South Africa.
Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of
kin to come to our bank and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as a next of kin or relative to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed relatives died in a plane crash leaving no relative behind to
claim the fund.It is upon this discovery that l and other officials in my
department decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relative to the deceased for safety and
subsequentdisbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this
money to go into our bank treasury as an unclaimed fund.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years,the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed funds.The request for a foreigner as a relative for
this claim is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
South African cannot claim this fund as next of kin.
We agreed that 30% of this money will go to the foreign partner who will
supply the foreign account,5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the transaction and 65% will be for me and my colleagues.Thereafter,l and my
colleagues will visit your country for disbursement of the percentages as
indicated above.If you are interested to assist in this transaction,kindly
contact the writer on the above mobile number or private e-mail
address.Please this transaction is risk free and you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for transfer.
Yours Faithfully,
MR. PETER LOEN
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