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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: "Desmond Momoh" <mrdesmondmomoh29@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrdesmondmomoh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:53:30 +0000
Subject: EXTREMELY URGENT(WESTON)
MR. DESMOND MOMOH. AN ACCONTANT
WITH MERCHANT BANK NIG. LIMTED
LOCATED AT 9/11 MACARTHY STREET
ONIKAN, LAGOS.NIGERIA.
Dear Weston,
I am obliged to write you especially concerning this forthnight
transaction.My name is Mr.Desmond Momoh, and I work in the Credit & foreign
Accounts Department of Merchant Bank of Nigeria Limited, Lagos-Nigeria.I am
writing you in respect of a distinguished foreign customer with our bank,
who died in a Plane Crash, His name is ENGR.Frank Weston, He was among those
who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria in the year 2002 May 4th.Since the
demise of this our customer, who was an oil Merchant/contractor,I have kept
a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has
come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.
Let me quickly refer you to the front page of (BBC) World News of Saturday,
4 May 2002,). You can check it through their websiteat,)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm
He had Deposit valued @ US$9.7 mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is
only an insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit
particulars.As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce
the needed information other than my very self considering my osition in the
bank as his account officer.Based on the reason that nobody has come forward
to claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your cooperation in
using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out
to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At
this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed the
deposit file from the safe.
If you agree to do business with me, will need your full name and
address,telephone and fax number for the processing of the transfer in your
name and favour. Finally i want you to understand that the request for a
foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and for that reason alone a Nigerian cannot represent as
next of kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss the ratio of
disbursement between us.
Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
Mr.Desmond Momoh
MERCHANT BANK NIGERIA LIMITED (MBN)
(ACCOUNT OFFICER)
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