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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: David <kgdav@telegraf.by>
Reply-To: hkdav@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:59:45 +0000
Subject: Dear Confidant
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Dear Confidant
partnership transaction
My name is Mr. David Ulrich a Banker and accountant with a bank here in Cote
Ivoire.I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a large sum
of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day.
I am the personal accounts manager to late Engr. Lake Wang, who worked with
an oil servicing company here in Cote Ivoire. My client, his wife, and their
three children were involved in the ill-fated Kenya Airways crash in the
coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all passengers on board died.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful.After several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name to see if I could
locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
Of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in our
country Cote Diviore, where the deceased has an account valued at about $16
million US dollars.(sixteen million dollars)Since his death, nobody has come
forward to lay claims to this money and recently my bank issued a notice
that the account will be declared unserviceable and the funds called to the
government treasury since no relative of the deceased came up.Since I have
been unsuccessful in locating the relatives over last 6 years , I will seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the
proceeds of this account valued at about $16 million US dollars can be paid
to you and then you and I can share the money.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through.I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. In your reply
mail, I want you to give me your full names, address, occupation, telephone
and fax numbers.These information will enable me work on the account faile
so that you can now apply for the release of the funds as the next of kin to
the account.If you can handle this with me, reach me
immediately for more details.
Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation.
Sincerely,
Mr. David Ulrich
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