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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_med07@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:54:43 -1200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20=26=20CONFIDENTIAL?=
Dear Friend,
My Name is John Med, managing director of Diamond Security & Storage
Company here in Accra, Ghana. In my department, I discovered an abandoned
consignment worth over the sum of US$12million dollars (Twelve Million
US Dollars) in file that belongs to our foreign customer, LATE MR. ANDREAS
SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany who died along with his entire family in
July 2000 in a plane crash.
Below is a website which I will appreciate you going through to read the
information.
<<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>>
Since then, I have made several enquiries to locate any of his extended
relatives but all effort has proved abortive.
The reason why I am contacting you is based on trust to enable me present
you as the next-of-kin to him so this consignment will be released to you
for safety and subsequent disbursement. Nobody has come to our company for
claiming of the consignment.
It will be easy to convince the company since I am in possession of the
necessary legalised documents that back-up the consignment and which will
present you as the rightful next-of-kin to the deceased customer. I don't
want this consignment to go into company's treasury as unclaimed bill. The
company laws and guidelines stipulates that if such consignment remains
unclaimed after eight years, the company will confiscate it.
The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this transaction is occasioned
by the fact that late ANDREAS was a foreigner and any indigene cannot stand
as next-of-kin to a foreigner. All I require is your honest co-operation
to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I agree that
25% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of your
assistance , 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the transaction,
another 5% to help the less privilege and to assist the charity organisations
here in Africa and abroad while the rest 65% will be for me. Thereafter,
I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate release of this consignment, you must
apply to the company as the relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating
your complete information, complete name, postal address, occupation, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the consignment will be released to. Upon receipt of your
reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application you
will send to the company to seek the release of the consignment to you.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements
have been made. You should contact me as soon as you receive thismail:My
Email address is john_med07@myway.com
Or you can send your number for me to call you. Trusting to hear from you
immediately for more detailed discussion.
Regards,
John Med.
Managing Director,
Diamond Security & Storage Company
Accra, Ghana.
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