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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. S. Kunte" <giusegobia@blackglobalnetwork.net>
Reply-To: a_akunwa@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:22:17 -0500
Subject: RE: I NEED YOUR URGENT ATTENTION ON THIS....
Hello,
I am Mr. Anderson Akunwa; I work with the office of the director, Audit department of Citizens bank of Nigeria, Lagos branch and the personal account officer to Mr. Adams Johnson.
Mr. Adams Johnson died on 2nd of March 2002 after a Brief illness at the age of 85. Until his death he was consultant to several oil and gas industries. He had a sojourn in the United States and so many other countries before he came to Cairn Energy PLC an oil and gas exploration and Production Company based in the United Kingdom. He was a knight in the Church and belonged to several non-governmental and scientific organizations. He was also great philanthropist and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club International. Since his death, the bank has made several efforts to locate any of the extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts by the bank, i decided to trace his relatives to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence i contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the funds that belong to Mr. Adams Johnson, before the funds gets confiscated and declare unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the branch where the deceased had an account valued at about (Nine Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Of America Dollars) has issued an official notice that if no one comes with a claim for the late. Mr. Adams Johnson's funds, the bank will have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since the bank has been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now. i now seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at (Nine Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Of America Dollars) can be paid to you and after then we can share the funds, 50% to me and 45% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require. All i require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this business through. I guarantee that this business will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me on this email: a_akunwa@yahoo.com.cn to enable us discuss further as to the success of this business.
My regards,
Anderson Akunwa.
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