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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: "FROM MR ANDREW WOLLEY" <wolley.andrew8@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: andrewwolley8@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:06 +0100
Subject: FROM MR ANDREW WOLLEY
>From Mr. Andrew Wolley
Address: 65 Petty France,St James Park,
London SW1H 9EU.
Occupations: International Remittance
Good Day,
Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I discovered your email and information through Internet search so I decided to contact you. I know you may think this is a scam because of the Internet scams that is going on round the world today.
But I must tell you that this is real. I will first introduce myself as Mr. Andrew Wolley, Director, and International Remittance in Citi Bank London, here in London, England. During our last Audit, I discovered that one of our accounts, with holding balance of £15,000,000 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterling) has been dormant and last operated three years ago.
>From my investigations and confirmation, the owner of the said account, a foreigner by name John Shumejda died on the 4th of January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham; you can view this CNN website for details on the crash.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/
Since then, nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money, as he has no family member that has any knowledge as to the existence of either the account or the funds; and also Information from the National Immigration also states that he was single on entry into the UK.
I have confidently discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We therefore propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after necessary processes have been followed because this fund can be claim by a foreigner due to the deceased owner of the account is also, foreigner.
I want to assure you that, this transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.
At the successful conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total amount as your share, 50% for me, while we will share all expenses that may occur equal to move the transaction ahead to success.
I will be waiting to hear from you with the below information.
FULL NAME:.................................
OCCUPATION:................................
A COPY OF YOUR ID:........................
AGE:......................................
MARRIED OR NOT:........................
HOME/OFFICE ADDRESS:.......................
TEL: ......................................
FAX:......................................
LIFE BIOGRAPHIC..........................
TRANSACTION DIRECTIVE TO FOLLOW:
Please the reason why you are needed to send all these details in the regard, is to the lawyer who will be hired in your behalf to use it open a new file in the name here in Citi bank London as the original inheritor of the said fund, and also he will use it to prepare a mutual confidential agreement which will bind us together as business partners till the said fund goes into your account.
Bear in mind that your urgent reply will be so immediate to proceed in action of this transaction, which will last for the {10} Ten banking working days, if you will show your great interest in the transaction. I have to assure you one thing which will interest you in move on with me in this deal, I will use my position in my office as the director of international remittance to move the said fund to the payment center where you will stand to claim the fund as the original beneficiary of the said fund over there in the country, where you will travel to sign all the final release order bond in the country of your choosing choice as Holland, Spain, Canada, France, Malaysia, Dublin, Ghana, South Africa, Italy etc.
Now all this will be affective, immediately you receive all the vital legal documents in your name in the fund origin begin London which will be secure by the assurance of the hired attorney will assist us to procured all the relevant legal documents which will be needed by the bank, to enable them notified you as the original inheritor to the said fund. The most important issue of this transaction is Financial. And we will join hand together to sponsor this successful transaction to achieve our goal.
Warm Regards,
Mr.Andrew Wolley.
Director,International Remittance
Citi Bank London.
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