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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: SYKE BANK PLC <skybankplc@skyebankng.com>
Reply-To: mikeoyenta@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 17 Sep 2006 15:17:31 -0000
Subject: Attn: your Urgent Response Needed
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Dear Friend,I am highly esteemed to write you this very urgent letter for your kind assistance which will be for our mutual benefits at the end of the day.My name is Micheal Oyenta,I work with Skye Bank Plc as an Accountant. In the discharge of my duty, I came on this domiciliary account that has remained dormant for some years now with our bank valued the sum of US$10,850,000.00 (Ten Million, Eight Hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars) I made some enquiries and discovered that the account holder died on the 25th of July 2000 with his wife and their two Children died in the Air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Although I know that a transaction of this magnitude might make anyone apprehensive,I would like to assure you that we are sending you this mail with the best of intensions.I am writing you so that we can work together to remit the money to you as the next of kin because this money belongs to a foreigner and has to be claimed by a foreigner. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by the deceased before they get declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge Deposit was lodged. The Bank has issued me a notice as the Accountant to the Deceased to provide the Next of Kin or have the fund declared as an UNCLAIMED FUND within the Next 15 official working days.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4years now that I have been searching. I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since you are a foreigner like him so that the proceeds of this Bank Account can be paid out in your favor. Be assure!
d that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate court, an order of madamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries and I guarantee this transaction under a legitimate arrangement that will not breach the law by both parties; it is simple process which will take a short while to process.All the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up any claim we are going to make are available. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.You will be compensated with 45% of the total fund on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for me. Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for me for investment purposes in your country when I come over to collect my due share of the fund.I await your urgent reply with your personal telephone number for effective communication and oral clarification.Reply!
by this private email address-mikeoyenta@yahoo.co.uk
Best Regards,
Micheal Oyenta.
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