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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: Abel Mohammed <abelmohammad1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:23:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ARE YOU THERE?
To Whom It May Concern.
It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter, which I believe will be a suprise, as we are both complete strangers. I am Mr. Abel Mohammed.the manager, credit and foreign bills of Islamic Development Bank. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank who has a sum of $25.7M with account number 41002551121104 He was involved in Tsunami victim on decemeber 2004 which claimed lives of many people.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless someone applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. On this note, Idecided to seek for your assistance to use your name as next of kin sice no one has come up as his relation after our due investigation through a lot of embassies.
And the country law here does not allow such money to stay more than two (2) years, for such money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed funds after this period.Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application form and the,bank's contact and the next step to take.If you indicate your sincere readiness to assist me in transfering this fund into your account wich you will provide as soon as possible.
Meanwhile,I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the transfer of the funds with all legal documents that will backup your claim has been cared for.This transaction will be finalized within five banking days, after you might have applied to the bank as a relation to the deceased.
Finaly,carfully red this letter and send me an e-mail and indicate your decision to do this business with me or not.Please Include your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.I will be very happy if you can treat this business with the utmost secrecy it demands because of my position in this bank.
Hoping for a very successful businessrelationship with you.
Respectfully submitted,
Mr. Abel Mohammed.
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