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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: ahmed wahid <ahmedwahid2@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:58:57 +0700
Subject: please get back to me fast.
Dear Friend
Good day, my name is Mr. Wahid Ahmed, a banker in one of leading commercial bank here in Jakarta Indonesia. I found your profile very interesting and decided to reach you directly to solicit for your assistance and guidelines, I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $16.400.000.00 (Sixteen Million, Four Hundred thousand us dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers, Late Mr. Robert Fredrick Mr. Robert and his wife Died in a ghastly motor accident while on a business trip on the 24th of March 2000. The said couple had no children and was about 63years old before their death. He never identified with anybody as his relative and investigation made could not trace any relative to the late couple.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and lay claims to his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only wife died along with him in the crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of these funds behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to your possession as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement, since nobody is laying claims to it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after six (6) years will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds. We agreed that some percentages of this money would be for you as gratification for assistance rendered, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me as trust stands to be our watchword in this transaction. Our assurance is that your role is risk free to accord this transaction the legality it deserves as with all modalities put in place we are certain in actualizing a hitch free transfer of the funds without any complications. Kindly signify your intention to assist by sending me an email for further procedures relating to this transaction.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Best regards,
Mr. Wahid Ahmed,
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