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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: "arthur luther" <arthur13luther@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:03:24 -0800
Subject: FROM ARTHUR LUTHER
From : Arthur Luther.
Greetings from London, Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want
to transfer to overseas account ($30,000.000.00 USD) Thirty million United
States Dollars) from a prime Bank here in London. I want to ask you, If you
are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide eitheran existing bank account or to set up a new
Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for
this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will
never let me down either now or in the future. I am Mr.Arthur Luther,
presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the banks here in London.
During the course of our auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in
an account opened in the bank in 1996 and since 1998 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence
the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Patrick Hearns an
American and a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter
leaving nobody to claim the money . No other person knows about this account
or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account. The
total amount involved is Thirty million United States Dollars only
[$30,000.000.00] and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners
account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only contacting you as
a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here,
but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I shall give
to you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you with believe
in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first
and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply
urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need
your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key bank
official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee you
that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law The bank official will destroy
all documents of the transaction immediately you receive this money leaving
no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all
legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the
total amount,70% will be for us. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Best Regards.
Arthur Luther.
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