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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: "Collins Wood" <collinswood07@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:36:45 +0000
Subject: URGENT MESSAGE AS NEXT OF KIN/WESTON.
Dear Sir,
I got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust and confidentiality. I am Mr. Collins Wood, the financial adviser to my Late client.He used to bank with us here at Union Bank Plc.
He worked with Addax oil as a contractor .
I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$8.615million in the account of Mr. Weston our foreign customer who died along with his entire family of a wife and three children in April, 2005 in a plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we can not release the fund from his account unless someone applies for the claims as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Until his untimely death his name was Kevin J. Weston.Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relatives has ever appeared to claim the fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make a deal with you and release the fund into your account as the heir of the money, since no one came for it or discovered the maintained account with our Bank otherwise the fund will be returned to the bank's treasury as unclaimed fund.
After the successful completion of this transaction,one of my colleagues and I will come to your country and mind our percentage.
It is from our share we intend import medical equipments into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail at this my private address
(collinswd@hotmail.com or collinsw7@hotmail.com)
Then enclose your private contacts telephone and fax numbers, your full name to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate department in the Ministry for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made easily.
Please, this transaction must be kept strictly confidential because of it's nature.
I await your immediate response.
Regards.
Mr. Collins Wood.
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