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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: "drchrisofor2" <drchrisofor@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:17:53 +0100
Subject: From The Desk Of Dr Chris Ofor
From The Desk Of Dr Chris Ofor
Union Bank Plc,
Senior Manager,
Lagos,Nigeria.
I am Dr Chris Ofor ,Senior Manager with Union Bank Plc,
Lagos, Nigeria.I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with extreme
confidentiality. On January 31 2000, a Foreign Consultant
and contractor with the Nigerian Petrolum Corporation Late
Mr. Morris Thompson by name made a numbered time Fixed
Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$25.5M Twenty
five Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my Bank.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance
with the Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no
reply.After a month we sent a reminder and finally we
discovered from his contract employers Nigerian National
Petrolum Corporation that Late Mr. Morris Thompson, died
from of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January
31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall
read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got
during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list.
On further investigation, we found out that he died without
making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore made further investigations and
discovered that Late Mr. Morris Thompson did not declare any
next of kin or relations in all his official documents
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.This sum of
US$25.5M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a
Financial and Security Company in Europe for safekeeping. No
one will ever come forward to claim it and according to the
Law of my country, at the expiration of 7 years the money
will revert to the ownership of the State (Government) if
nobody applies to claim the fund.
This prompted i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the
next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal
beneficiary of the sum of US$25.5M U.S Dollars that is
presently in a Financial and Security Company in Europe. I
contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to
own and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would
be needed to claim the money in the Financial and Security
Company in Europe.
I have unanimously agreed that 35% of the entire sum would
be for you if you agree to take part in this profitable
transaction,60% for me while the remaining 15% would be used
to pay back the expenses that may be incurred during the
course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has
been claimed and lodged in your account. In the event that
you are genunely interested in the transaction, the
following information would be needed from you to expedite
action.
1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Age/Sex
4) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you
can be reached
at all time because this transaction entailsconstant
communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as
all modalities has been perfected to ensurethe hitch free
succesof the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via
email.
God Bless,
Dr Chris Ofor
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