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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "John Edward" <johned4117@mail.mn>
Reply-To: johned4116@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:16:58 -0700
Subject: Mr John Edward
Hello,
With all due respect to your personality, I request that you do not feel
disturbed as I know that business of this magnitude will surely make one
apprehensive.
I write to solicit your utmost confidence, knowing too well that we have
neither known nor met each other before, but because you and the late Mr.
Thomas Bell are from the same country.
Having searched through the internet, from where I got your email address, I
hereby request that you become the Next of Kin to the late customer of our
bank, Late Mr.Thomas Bell, who died in West Africa here and abandoned a
fixed deposit of Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
(USD $ 12.500.000.00), without a specified next of kin to inherit the
deposit at the time of his death.(Maybe he did this because of the fact that
he was into crude oil deals called "Oil bunckering" here in west Africa.
My name is John Edward. I am an accountant and the accounting officer to the
Thomas Bell in the BCEAO Bank of Lome .In the financial Laws of the Federal
Republic of Togo, the holding bank is required to repatriate any abandoned
fund by a foreigner if nobody comes to claim the said funds after three (3)
years of the confirmation of the death of the depositor.
For the past three years, all the effort of our Customer Service Department
to trace any relative of the Late Mr.Thomas Bell has proved abortive. I do
not want this funds to go into the hands of our corrupt government
officials, who have embezzled our national funds all these years.
My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:
1) To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt
government officials
2) To make you the Next of Kin to the late Mr. Thomas and whom he has willed
the said deposit before his death.
3) To ensure that the deposited funds is transferred to you as your
INHERITANCE.
4) To ensure that my own share of it is invested wisely in your country in
any viable area of
investment. Bear in mind that the entire transaction will be risk-free and
legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as your INHERITANCE.
If this proposition is acceptable by you, respond to me ASAP but if not
acceptable by you, do not take advantage of it to betray me. Remember that
doing business over the Internet could sometimes be confidential. If
acceptable by you,send me your private telephone and fax numbers for me to
call you for detailed discussion.
Thank and God bless.
Mr John Edward
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