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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_bruce40" <mr_bruce40@flashmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_bruce40@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:40:21 -0100
Subject: Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
I am sure you will be surprised at this letter that i am
sending to you as we
have never met before. But let me introduce myself to you. I
am Mr.vanny Bruce, the
manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of a Security Company.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of
US$30.5M,(Thirty Million, Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars) that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who
died along with his wife and only daughter in a plane crash
of Alaska Airlines
Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. You
shall read more about
the crash on visiting this site
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American
and great industrialist and a resident of
Alaska.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to
make this business
proposal to you and for our bank to release the money to
you. You have to follow
the instruction which I will send to you as the next of kin
or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it
and I don't want this money to go into our bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such
money remained
unclaimed after six years, the money will be transfered into
the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The money has now stayed more than five
years and I am
preparing documentaion to prove that this money has been
transfered to our bank
treasury. It will be between me and you only that will know
that the money is not
transfered into our treasure. The request of foreigner as
next of kin in this
transaction is occasioned by the fact that the customer was
a foreigner.In appreciation of your assistance, I am
offering you 30% of the total sum. 5%
for contingencies (cost of transfer/other charges) likely to
be incurred during
the course of transaction, while the remaining 65% is for
me.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the
application which you will complete and forward to our bank
asking for this
money to be paid to you as the next of kin to Mr. Morris
Thomson. I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free
and that you should
not entertain any fear as all required arrangements have
been made for the
transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this mail through the
below email for further directives .
you can contact me with this address:
mr_bruce40@yahoo.com
thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.vanny Bruce.
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