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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: "Dr. Malick Johnson" <malickjohnson4@yahoo.dk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: malickjohnson45@yahoo.dk
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:50:33 +0100
Subject: From. Mr. Malick Johnson. Urgent Respond Needed.
Dear Friend,
I will like to solicit your help in a business proposition, which is by nature very confidential and a Top Secret. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one worried and apprehensive but I am assuring you not to worry, as all will be well at the end of this endeavor.
I am Mr. Malick Johnson, Client Service Manager of Cooperative Standard Bank Dakar Senegal, My partners and I have decided to seek your help in transfer of some amount of money requiring maximum confidence from my bank. A foreigner, Late Dr. Edward Merrell, who was an oil merchant and contractor with the Federal Government of Senegal until his death onboard the ill fated Kenyan Airways bus {A310300} was our customer here at Cooperative Standard Bank and had a balance of US$32 million which the bank now expects his next of kin to claim as the beneficiary .
So far, valuable efforts has been made to get to his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives more because he left his next of kin column in his account opening forms blank and he has no known relatives . Due to this development our management and the board of directors are making arrangements for the funds to be declared unclaimed, returned to Senegal being the point of origin and subsequently paid into the federal government purse. Usually, funds of this nature end up in the greedy pockets of some politicians due to our corrupt society.
To avert this negative development my colleagues and I have decided to look for a reputable person to act as the next of kin to late Dr. Merrell, so that the funds could be processed and released into his account, which is where you come in. We shall make arrangement with a qualified and reliable attorney that will represent you in liaising with my bank for inconveniency of you coming to my country.
All legal documents to aid your claim for this fund and to prove your relationship with the deceased will be provided by us. Your help will be appreciated with 20% of the total sum (US$6,400,000). Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you. Thank you very much for your time.
I wait anxiously for your response.
Yours faithfully,
Malick Johnson
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