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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: "richard duke" <rchrd.duke@gmail.com>
Reply-To: willyhen2000@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:19:37 -0700
Subject: urgent
*From: Dr. Richard Duke
Greetings from London
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We
want to transfer to
overseas account (£30,000.000 Pounds) Thirty million
British Pounds
from a prime Bank here in London. I want to ask you,
if you are not
capable to quietly look for reliable and honest
person who will be capable
and fit to provide either an existing bank account or
to set up a new
Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an
empty a/c can serve
to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the
end for this important business trusting in you and
believing in God
that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am Dr.Richard Duke, presently promoted to Auditor
General in one of
the Banks here in London. During the course of our
auditing last week,
I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1996
and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again, after going
through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the
account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is
floating and if I
do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Neal Walker an
American and a great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who
unfortunately lost his
life along with his wife in the plane crash on the
31st October 1999 in
an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on
board was an American
Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid
Minerals Corporation.
Since his death nobody has come forward to make
claims for the money;
because they all died in the same accident himself
and his wife (May
their soul rest in peace). No other person knows
about this account or
anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that the account
is a secret account.
The total amount involved is Thirty million British
Pounds only
[£30,000.000.00 Pounds] and we wish to transfer this
money into safe
foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any
foreigner; I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money
cannot be approved to a local
person here, but to a foreigner who has information
about the account,
which I shall give to you upon your positive
response. I am revealing
this to you with believe in God that you will never
let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that
I am contacting for
this business, so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you the
next step to take urgently.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 40% of the
total amount, 50% will be for us while 10% will be
for the expenses both
parties may incurred during this transaction. PLEASE,
TREAT THIS PROPOSAL
AS TOP SECRET.
I look forward to your earliest reply
Best Regards,
Dr. Richard Duke.
Greetings From Rich.
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