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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: "tramadol@hotbox.com" <tramadol@hotbox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:21:01 +0800
Subject: oh,my god~
My Dear friend,
Please grant this email your attention as I know you did not solicit
for it, because you don¡¯t know me before but bear with me that it takes
nothing than a moment like this for people to come into contact and
become great friends/partners.
My name is Sam Okabue, the present branch Manager of a Prime bank here
in Africa.
There is this fixed deposit account in my bank that has been lying
idle for a long time now. This fixed deposit account is in the name of
Mr. Salim Iman, former top officer in Iraqi Government. The account has
three years contract which was to mature in December 2004. Mr. Salim
personally came to me in 2001 when he was in Nigeria for vacation and
informed about some funds he wishes to safe guard in my bank, since he
is a top Officer in his country, he cannot deposit such kind of money
with a bank in Iraq. I advised him to choose our fixed deposit
account, because this will yield him big interest. The account was
established and when the documentation was being processed, I demanded
for his next of kin, but he said that he had none, since he lost his
entire family during the Golf War in Iraq. So the next of kin column
was left vacant.
Some months after the account was created, I received a sad letter
from Mr. Salim, informing me that the Iraqi authorities ordered him not
to leave the country till further notice, as he was being suspected to
be involved in Treason attempt to Saddam Hussein, that he do not know
what will happen next. That was the last I heard from him and after
sometime, I tried to reach him without success, but later discovered
that he was arrested and executed by wicked Saddam Hussein among other
suspected people.
Here is the reason why I contacted you, last week the Government of my
country establishes a new Financial Law, which will take effect in a
month¡¯s time. This new Financial Law will give the Government power to
monitor all banks within the country and any bank account having more
than $500,000 [Five Hundred Thousand Dollars] credit will be queried
and the bank holding the funds will be instructed to produce the
account owner for questioning. The Government wants to use these
measures in checking money laundering within the country.
If this money still remains in my bank, in a month¡¯s time the
Government will request my bank to produce the owner which will be
impossible, and the funds will be seized. Because of this, I decided
to act fast and move the funds out of the country immediately and in
order to do this, I need the assistance of a foreigner whom I shall
present as the beneficiary to the account to receive the funds because
it is an established fact that the deceased is a foreigner. I know you
will be asking yourself, how can these works out, but I assure you that
it is 100% possible. I
have concluded plans on how this will work out and I will explain the
details to you once I have your consent. The process shall be bank-to-
bank wire transfer and all I require is your honest corporation.
I shall stop here until I hear from you. Further details on how this
deal shall be made available to you on receipt of your response, then
we can discuss on our mode of sharing. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality. I shall furnish you with the data of the said
account upon our resumption of the process.
I wait for your urgent response because I only have less than a month
to move this money out.
Thank You,
Ok
tramadol@hotbox.com
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