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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: jeff robert <jeffrobert49@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:21:42 -0500
Subject: Good News For You
Dear Sir,
I know that this is an unusual platform for us to
be discussing this kind of business but the situation has necessitated
me to use this medium to communicate you for now. But let me introduce
myself to you. I am Dr. Jeff Robert, the manager of bill and exchange
at the foreign remittance department of my Bank. In my department I
discovered an abandoned sum of US$4.5M,(Four Million, Five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars) that belongs to one of our foreign customers who
died along with his wife and only daughter in a plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. You can
read more about the crash on visiting this site
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/. The owner of
this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist
and a resident of Alaska.
It is therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for our
bank to release the money to you. You have to follow the instruction
which I will send to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and I don't want this money to go into our bank treasury as unclaimed
bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after 7 years, the money will be transferred into
the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The money has now stayed more than
7 years and I am preparing documentation to prove that this money has
been transferred to our bank treasury.
In appreciation of your
assistance, I am offering you 30% of the total sum. 5% for
contingencies (cost of transfer/other charges) likely to be incurred
during the course of transaction, while the remaining 65% is for me.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application, which you will complete, and forward to our bank
asking for this money to be paid to you as the next of kin to Mr.
Morris Thomson. 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 for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately you receive this mail for further directives through jeffrobert002@aol.in
Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Jeff Robert.
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