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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: "Ashley Katz" <ashley.ktz1@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:15 +0400
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Ashley Katz
**One Bishops Square
London E1 6AO United Kingdom
Phone: +44-702 408 5545
Good day,
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as
such. I am Ashley Katz, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole
executor to the late Mr. Norbert Bartlett, hereinafter referred to as 'my
client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died
in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of Oct 2000. Since the
death of my client in Oct 2000, I have written several letters to the
embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such
efforts have been to no avail.
More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a
likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line
with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of $4.8
million. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding
that you bear a similar last name, I decided to contact you, that I may,
with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's
surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in
that capacity as a next of kin of my client.
I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar last
name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that
capacity. I propose that 65% of the net sum will accrue to you at the
conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need,
first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain
your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details
as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall
direct on how to put up an application to the bank.
However, you will have to assent to an express agreement, which I will
forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of
your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that
you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been
made for the completion of this transfer. Like I have implied, I require
only a solemn confidentiality on this.
Best regards,
Ashley Katz.
**One Bishops Square
London E1 6AO United Kingdom*
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