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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: "John Asher" <joasher@microx.selfip.net>
Reply-To: <joasher1@gala.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:59:12 +0200
Subject: Get Back To Me
From The Desk Of John Asher
Access Bank
Senior Manager
Lagos Nigeria.
I am John Asher, Senior Manager with Access 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 Petroleum 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 Petroleum 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 front you 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 genuinely 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, Telephone and Fax numbers where you can be
reached at all time because this transaction entails constant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all
modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via email.
God Bless,
John Asher
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