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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: "MR DON" <bbmfrn1@dixto.net>
Reply-To: don_ben333@yahoo.de
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:04:06 +0000
Subject: RE
From Mr.Don Ben
Deputy Managing Director
Access Bank Plc
Email:
Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Don Ben, I am the Deputy Managing Director of Access Bank Plc. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of US$25.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thoudsand United States Dollars) from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Glenn Hartleberg who died in an air crash along with his wife on the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below which was published by
www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska airlines.list
Since his death, none ofhis next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery. I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. Because after four years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. So it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money among themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested. All I need from you is as follows:
1. Your confirmation of your ability to handle this Business for me.
2. Your word that you will keep this business as Confidential as
possible at all times until we conclude this business.
3. Your telephone and Fax numbers for communication.
4. Age and Occupation.
I shall be compensating you with thirty percent on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while we will retain sixty-five percent and five percent goes for expenses because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this business. If this business is acceptable by you. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.
Your faithfully,
Mr. Don Ben
Deputy Managing Director
Access Bank Plc.
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