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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "Lloyds TSB Bank" <richardpurkhardt@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 2007 03:15:08 +0100
Subject: Re-profiling
I am Mr.Richard Purkhardt, Senior Credit Officer, Lloyds TSB bank,London. I am writing
following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both
of us.
In my department we discovered the sum of £5.5 Million British Pounds Sterling
(Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling) in a Trust
Account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Ronald Lake, an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines
Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife .Please check
the following website for further reference:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relation to come over
and claim his money because the Bank cannot release the funds unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
financial guidelines.
Unfortunately, we learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
these funds behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that two
other officials in this department and I decided to do business with you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for
safe 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 bill.
We agreed that 20% of the funds would be for you as foreign partner, 10% would
be given to charity while the balance will be for my colleagues and I. We will
visit your country upon conclusion for the disbursement according to the
percentages indicated above once the funds are safely deposited in your
account. Please be honest with us as trust is our watchword in this
transaction.
As soon as you receive this email you should contact me by return email whether
or not you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about
it. I hope you can be trusted in this regard.
Please, note that all necessary arrangements for the smooth release of these
funds to you have been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your response via any of the contacts as given below.
Please in your response include your telephone and fax numbers for a better
communication between us to my email address : richardpurkhardt@postino.ch
Yours truly,
Richard Purkhardt
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