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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: "Peter Wallace" <prj.wallace16@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: pr.wallace1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:51:53 -0700
Subject: Hello Friend
*
My name is Mr. Peter James Wallace, I am 51yrs old and an accounts manager
in one of the leading banks in London. For obvious reasons, I will prefer to
keep my bank anonymous for now and we shall relate only by e-mail until such
a time when I do have your full trust and confidence. What I have may be of
interest to you. It is a business proposal that will be beneficial to you
and I.
I live and work in London, United Kingdom. I have been working in a bank in
London for the past 17 years where I am presently an accounts manager. I
will give you my full details on your reply to this letter. My aim of
contacting you is to solicit your co-operation and assistance based on one
of the accounts under my management containing $18.5 million (Eighteen
million, Five hundred thousand dollars) which have remained dormant for the
last sixteen years. This account was owned by the late Mrs. Jovita Jasmine
Carerra, who died in a car accident in May, 1992 and has since been buried
and forgotten in her native home in the Bahamas. During the course of my
investigation, I found out that she lost her husband Mr. Timothy Carrerra
from whom she inherited her wealth 3 yrs earlier, she had no relatives
knowing about the secret account in Europe. However, she left a very
important document written in her handwriting which was deposited in one of
our secret account vaults in the bank, which states among other things what
is to be done with her estate especially the money she secretly kept in the
account which amounts to $18.5 million (Eighteen million, Five hundred
thousand dollars) and deposited in our correspondence bank in Europe.
Please note the following:*
*1. You will get a commission of $6.4 million (Six million four hundred
thousand dollars) being 30% of total funds. *
*2. I have all the necessary information regarding this transaction since I
am the account manager of my bank, I have also done all the homework on this
and I am very confident of its success. Do not reveal this to nobody, this
is very important, my whole life and career could be jeopardized, I shall
give you more technical details as time goes on if we move fast, we can
accomplish this as fast as possible.
I will inform you more on how we can get the money in her account
transferred into your account if you agree to co-operate with me on this on
your reply to this mail. I will also give you more personal details of me
and the transaction on your reply. Please treat this as confidential, urgent
and of utmost importance.
Your response to my mail will encourage me to give you more details about me
and this transaction.
Peter Wallace*
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