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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: "eokoro3 Gazeta.pl" <eokoro3@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:04:49 +0100
Subject: I HAVE TRIED MANY TIMES TO CONTACT YOU.
*FROM THE DESK OF MR. E. OKORO,
THE BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
OF UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Dear friend,
I have tried many times to contact you, I will be pleased, if you reply me.
Mean while, I am Mr. Eustance Okoro, the Bill and ExchangeManager at the
Foreign Remittance Department of UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC. I got your
contact from the Internet while searching for an honest and trust worthy
person from your country that will assist me to implement this transfer.
I discovered the sum of twenty two million and five hundred thousand United
States Dollars belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has
been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claim over
the money since the account owner late Mr. Stefonv Karismir from your
country, who was involved in the Oct. 29th 2006 Nigeria plane crash.
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer of the bank. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next if kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws. But unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or family died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it. And I
don't want this fund to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of you as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I therefore solicit for
your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.
I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary in
respect of the provision of your Account and services rendered, 55% would be
for me. While 5% will be for expenses incurred during the cause of this
transaction. I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and
secret as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured that
this business is 100% risk free on both side and every arrangement to
transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide have been
concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and security involved.
Contact me on my email address (eeokoro11@yahoo.com.au) I am looking forward
for your prompt response. Send me your information as follow: Your Full
Name, contact address, Telephone Number,Mobile Number, Fax number,
Occupation, Sex and Age.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Eustance Okoro.
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