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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: "dossousilva Gazeta.pl" <dossousilva@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:43:21 +0100
Subject: Re: INFORMATIOM FROM MISS SIILVA - COTONOU
Dear Friend,
Hope this mail will not bother your personality. My name is Miss. Silva
Dossou, working with a financial institution here in Benin republic. I was
the account officer of a Lebanese contractor who lost his life in a plane
crash of 2003 in my country.
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
He left behind in his account the sum of 11.5M United States Dollars. Since
the tragic incident, no member of Mr. Jamal's family has come to claim this
fund. I am contacting you to come and assist me and my colleagues to provide
a bank account where this money will be transfered and be shared amongst us,
my colleagues and I because as it is in policy of my country, any money of
sort that lies unclaimed, automatically goes into our government treasury.
I also need a truthful and God fearing person in this business because I
don't want to make a mistake so I need your strong assurance and trust.With
my position in the office I don't want anything that will jeopardize my
job,so I advice that we should make secrecy and confidentiality as our
primary working condition, bearing in mind that I am a public servant and
also work in the bank.I will use my position and influence to supply all
informations for the onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate answers to likely informations to be required by the bank. At
the conclusion of this business, you will be giving 20% of the total
amount, 75% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred on the process of the transfer.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here in republic of Benin, but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in United States
Dollars and the former owner Mr.JAMAL ABDUL is a foreigner too. I know
that this message will come to you as surprise as we don't know ourselves
before.
You will only need you to send your private telephone and fax numbers
including the full details of your account information to be used for the
deposit. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and
for other investment in your kind control, Meanwhile, I am contacting you
because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign account and foreign
beneficiary.
Kindly indicate your interest by replying this mail so that I shall instruct
you on what next to do. On your response, kindly forward to me the following
information:
1. Your full names
2. Your telephone numbers and
3. Your full address
NOTE: This information should be kept confidential as we are still
government service and for confidentiality and security reason, please reply
through:
silva.dossou@gmail.com
Yours faithfully,
Silva Dossou (miss).
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