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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: United Nation <unitedx49@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <united_nation_delegation@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:03:29 +0100
Subject: AN IMPORTANT LETTER FOR YOU DEAR........ WALTER.
UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAMS VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
ATTENTION: SCAMMED VICTIM/$500,000 BENEFICIARIES. REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $500,000 USD. This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $500,000 USD (FIVE Hundred Thounsand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $500,000 USD compensations funds. On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarming on the money lost by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 150 victims $500,000 USD each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be processed by CENTRAL BANK OF NIG as corresponding Paying bank under funding assistance by The LONDON BANK or MALAYSIA for funds remittance. Benefactor of this compensation will have to be first cleared and recommended for payment by CENTRAL BANK OF NIG. According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States and Asia,we still have a pending of 36 compensations left to be paid. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their personal details application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration. You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/ATM PAYMENTS or DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER. We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response from you. we are waiting so soon to hear from you for your $500,000 USD compensation. Yours Faithfully, DR. SHAMSUDDEEN USMAN.
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