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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 Andrea Dousso" <mr.andrea1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: mr_andrea001@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:12:42 +0200
Subject: Dear,
Dear,
I am Mr. Andrea Doussou, a staff in the Auditing Department of Financial
Bank, Benin. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be
of imense benefit to both of us. I know you might be surprised as to how I
came by your name and address.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15.5million (Fifteen
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, only) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the September 11, 2001 Attack on
America.
And since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him on the inccedent leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this
department now decided to make business with you and release the money to
you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want
this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed fund. The
banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after
six years the money will be transferred into government treasury as
unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner and 5%
for expenses, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will
visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages
indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to
me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail. Please note that all
necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please in your response include your phone number for easy communication
between us.
Best regards
Mr. Andrea Dousso
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