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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: "silva dossou" <meandu12@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: silva.dossou@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:04:20 +0100
Subject: RE: INFORMATION FROM MISS SILVA
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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