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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: "Christo Ladley" <christoladley@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:11:14 +0200
Subject: FYI/BUSINESS PROPOSAL FOR A TRUSTWORTHY ASSISTANT
Dear friend,
I am Mr. Christo Ladley, manager of bills / exchange at the foreign
remittance department of Old Mutual Bank of South Africa. In my department
we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15,500,000(fifteen million five hundred
thousand US dollars only) in an account belonging to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his entire family on Monday, 31st of July 2000,
in a ghastly plane crash.
Since his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his funds, we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next
of kin or relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking guiding
principles. Unfortunately nobody has come to claim these funds.
See website for details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relative of the
deceased so that the funds can be remitted into your account. Moreover, we
do not want the money to go into the government account as unclaimed bill.
The banking guiding principles here stipulated that any account abandoned or
dormant for a long period of time is deemed closed, and all funds contained
therein forfeited to the government treasury account. Now it is being
speculated that the above sum be transferred into the government account as
an unclaimed fund on or before July, 2007.
The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin is
occasioned by the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner. The
mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your account
is 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be expected to play in
this deal, we have agreed to give you twenty five percent (25%) of the total
sum, and five percent (5%) for the expenses we are going to encounter at the
course of this transaction. therefore, you are expected to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this business.
After receiving your reply, you will be contacted again with the exact steps
to take to enable us conclude this transaction urgently. Please treat this
business proposal as strictly confidential as possible for security reasons.
Please I am expecting your urgent response via email:
christoladley@myway.com
Kind Regards,
Mr. Christo Ladley
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