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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: "Ken Emmanuel" <ken_emmanuel4@rediffmail.com>
Date: 18 Nov 2006 18:24:35 -0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
FROM MR.KEN EMMANUELDIRECTOR INCHARGE OF AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,CONTINENTAL BANK,COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLICprivate email: ken_emmanuelll@yahoo.deCall me 00229 97 130 162 Dear Friend, [RE: TRANSFER OF $15,000,000.00] How are you today? hoping that everything is quite well with you. Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day,I discovered the sum of Fifteen million United States Dollars (USD15M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank from CONTINENTAL BANK here in BENIN REP OF COTONOU I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.
I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me dow neither now or in future. My name is Mr. Ken Emmanuel, I am the personal account officer to a great late Dr. Hamid Ayed who has an account in one of the top banks here in Benin. account owner late Dr. Hamid Ayed from lebanon, who was involved in the December 23th Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered= www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ without a written or oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. &nbs
p;The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 4 years without claim hence the money will be re-called to the government treasury as unclaimed after this long period of dormancy.The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry into the Republic of BENIN. The total amount in this account is USD$15 Million As a matter of fact,i have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me. There is no risk involved in this business.With my position and my personal contact with th
e manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. We will start the first transfer with[$10,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $5, Million to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account, which I will provide to you.Before we proceed in this great deal,i want you to forward to me ASAP the following information below as to establish a mutual understanding; 1)Your Residential/Office Address.2)Your Telephone/Fax Number.3)Your profession.4)Your Age/Marital status. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 35% for you, 5% for any expenses incurred in this business and the remaining 60%
for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start to process the transfer of the fund to your account without further delay. I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project as this will greatly enrich both of us at the end. BEST REGARDS,Mr.Ken Emmanuel.
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