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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: "Joseph Leyden" <josephleyden@ikoldfh.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:36:40 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Very Important Letter.
Dear Friend,
Greetings to you and your family today, I trust all is well with you and yours. This letter may come to you as a surprise but please I will appreciate it if you take your time to read and understand the contents therein. Before I commence discussion about my reason of contacting you, I want to you to please keep the contents therein this email very confidential to protect our interest and also to protect the future of the business portfolio that I am about to inform you of.
I am Dr. Joseph Leyden, an American with a doctorate degree in Accounting, I am presently appointed as the principal accounting manager of the Private banking services of the Bank of China. I am a family man with a wife and a beautiful daughter. I am contacting you concerning an investment portfolio of Sixteen Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars placed at my Bank 3 Years ago by the subject matter (ref: bb/boc/bank/0012). He came to me as I was his account manager and informed me of the amount of Sixteen Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars which he wished to invest in our Bank. His plan was to make a fixed deposit of the total amount but I advised him to invest part of the funds and he followed my advice. We invested the sum of Five Million, Five Hundred and Twenty three thousand United States Dollars in the Chinese Stock Market and deposited the sum of Ten Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Seven thousand United States Dollars as fixed deposit here at my Bank. The investments at the Chinese stock market quickly yield fruits and he liquidated all his investments with the Chinese Stock market, he applied our services to help him transfer the estate to an account in France. We did this according to his wish and he acknowledged receiving the funds in his account. He later informed me that he used the money to purchase properties.
In October, 2006 I tried my possible best to contact and enquire from my customer if he wanted us to turn over his fixed deposit and the accrued interest on his behalf but all my efforts to contact him was in vain. Later in early November, our intelligence department found out that he died of heart problem in France, a copy of his death certificate was shown to me and the BOD of my Bank. My bank has since been trying to locate any of his relatives to come forward and claim his estate but they have not been able to find anyone. This is because my deceased customer did not have any next of kin, he was adopted by orphans at the age of 3, and he died single. I am the only one who knows about this as we were very close friends because I watched after his investments. Presently, my Bank has handed the task of locating any possible relatives of my deceased customer to me being his account manager, family friend and also the present head of Intelligence Unit of the Private Banking Services of my Bank. My bank will gladly accept whoever I bring forth to claim the estate. Should this estate not be claimed before the end of this year, it will be directed to the Government as unclaimed money and this I do not want to happen if I have my way.
Presently, there is Twelve Million, Seventy four thousand and seven hundred United States Dollars at my Bank waiting to be claimed. The funds are currently in a bonded state and no one can tamper or trade with it.
I am hereby proposing that you work with me and I will have this estate transferred to you for the both of us. I will have an attorney prepare inheritance documents to make you the next of kin and inheritor of the estate. All I ask from you is total trust and partnership. I am a family man and I love my family so much, I do not want anything that will spoil my future or my family so I am assuring you that the business will be brought within the real of legitimacy. All I ask of you is total trust and partnership as I will have the estate secured here and transferred to you for the both of us. We will share the proceeds 50% each.
If you are interested, kindly send me your response to my private email address drled1001@hushmail.com and endeavor to inform me about your person. Please note that this is a life time opportunity and I need you to be very serious and dedicated to this project. Let me know if you are willing to assist me. Once I receive your positive response, I will send to you more information about the business and about myself for your reference.
Please endeavor to keep every word therein this letter confidential, should you find this proposal not appealing, please delete my email and save me from not getting into trouble or loosing my job. I trust you are a very understanding person. Thank you for the time you have taken to read this letter, I am on standby awaiting your response.
Best regards,
Dr. Joseph Leyden
NOTE: Apart from communicating via email, I do not want any direct link between us as my telephone calls are monitored by my Bank's security in order to know my relationship with customers. Please, do not ever think of contacting me via official channels. If you do I will deny knowing you. I hope you understand my reason of taking such security measures.
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