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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: "joseph poon" <poonhelpserve5@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:18:43 -0500
Subject: DEAR FRIEND
DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr.Joseph Poon Executive Director Of Operations of the Hang Seng
Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong.
An Iraqi named Hamadi Hashem a business man made a numbered fixed
deposit of (346,736,899.68 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is valued to
Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my
branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the
war, three years ago (2003). Again after the war another notification
was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that
Hamadi Hashem and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast
that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Hamadi Hashem
did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the
paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time
he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my
bank. So, Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is
still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.
What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the
expiration five years six months the funds will revert to the ownership
of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a
position to instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the
closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to
share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as
the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the
proceeds FIFTY - FIFTY. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be
released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my
involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I could have the
deposit
released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the
final closing of the file relating to Hamadi Hashem I will then
officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit
to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this
proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you
should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and
destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and
forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not
approve of my proposal.
You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums
out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am
not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience,
this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry
dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way
once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find
myself in total control of my destiny. These chances won’t pass me by.
I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me
let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am
a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new
opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well
worth
undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here
is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only
one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a
name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life.
Lets share the blessing.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via
official channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat,
I
do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I
want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me
only through the numbers I will provide for you and also through this
email address: joseph_poon85@yahoo.com.hk I do not want any direct link
between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are
periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with
our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction
religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and
children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.
This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients.
Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan
a meeting, soon.
Should you be interested please send me your full names, Phone Number
and current residential address and I will prefer you to reach me on the
email address below.
E-mail: joseph_poon85@yahoo.com.hk
and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
operation.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
I await your response.
Mr.JOSEPH POON.
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