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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: daniel_otah@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:09:51 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=2E?=
Dear Friend,
I am highly delighted to be in contact with you and sorry for the embarrassment
this mail might be to you as we have not met or known each other before.
My name is Mr. daniel otah. I was a good friend to Late Mr. Roy J. Sumpter,
a national of your country, who until his death has no wife nor son or daughter
to claim his assets hence he was buried here.
He was a contractor and spent most of his life in my country Nigeria. Mr.
Roy J. Sumpter was involved in a car accident along Benin/Onitsha express
road and unfortunately lost his life on the 27th day of September 2004 at
Onitsha. Since then I have made several inquiries through your country embassy
to locate any of my friends extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful
hence he did not leave a trace of his relatives abroad..
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you since
all my effort to trace or locate any member of his family failed me, so
that you as a foreigner will assist me as my late friend next-of-kin in
claiming the Capital valued of US $7.5 million left behind by my friend
before it gets confiscated by the Finance Company where these huge deposits
was lodged.
The said Finance Company in Nigeria has issued me a notice to provide the
next of Kin or have the Fund confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful
In locating any of my friend's relatives for over Seven Months now, I seek
your consent to present you as the Next-of-kin of the deceased since you
have the same last name with my late friend, so that the proceeds of this
US $7.5 million can be paid to you and we will share it on any agreed percentage
ratio.
Therefore, on receipt of your positive respond, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for claim. I have all the necessary information
needed to back you up the claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation
to enable us see this transaction through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and me from any breach of the law.
Please send me your word immediately through my private email address: daniel_otah111@yahoo.co.uk
so that I can give you further information about this matter, and also provide
a telephone number where I can call to talk with you.
Best regards,
Mr. daniel otah.
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