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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: "Donel Matins" <ddme08@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: dd_matins00@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:26:03 +0100
Subject: From:Dr.Donel Matins Edobor.
From:Dr.Donel Matins Edobor.
Manager, Credit and Foreign
Bills, Zenith International Bank
Limited,Lagos-Nigeria.
My name is Donel Matins Edobor, the manager Credit and Foreign Bills of
Zenith International Bank Limited of Nigeria.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank Mr.Andreas
Schranner, a German National, a property magnate, made a series of (Fixed)
Deposit, valued at $15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million, FiveHundred Thousand
Dollars) for twelve calendar months with account number 14-255-2004/zib/t.
Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but
got no response.
After amonth, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his company
that Mr. Andreas Schranner was aboard the ill fated AF4590 plane, which
crashed Monday,31 July, 2000 into the Hotelissimo.
Since the death of Mr. Andreas Schranner, I personally have watched with
keen interest to see his next-of-kin but all has proved abortive as no one
has come to claim his funds of US$15.5m (Fifteen Million,Five
HundredThousand UnitedStates Dollars), which has been with my bank for a
very long time.
On this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as his
next-of-kin as no one has come up to be his next-of-kin. In view of this,I
got your contact through my country's foreign trade mission after I was
convinced by providence that your name could be used as his next-of-kin.
The request of the foreigner as a next-of-kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that Mr. Andreas Schranner was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot
stand as his next-of-kin to a foreigner.I agreed that 30% of this money will
be for you as a foreign partner in respect of providing a new bank
account/support or we can use your old account information,while the rest
will be for me, there after,I will visit your country for disbursement as I
am almost due for retirement.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to your account
as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as a relation to Mr.Andreas
Schranner indicating your private telephone number, and fax numbers for easy
communication and the location where the money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or e-mail the
application and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this business is hitch-free and that you should not entertain
any fear, as the whole required arrangement has been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this
letter.Trusting to hear from you.
Reply to my direct email address-: dmatins2007@yahoo.fr
Your respectfully,
Dr.Donel Matins Edobor
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