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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: "Desmond Momoh" <mrdesmondmomoh2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrdesmondmomoh@sify.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:43:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Extremely Urgent Please
D MOMOH. AN ACCONTANT
WITH MERCHANT BANK NIG. LIMTED
LOCATED AT 9/11 MACARTHY STREET
ONIKAN, LAGOS.NIGERIA.
Dear Friend,
I am obliged to write you specially concerning this forthnight
transaction.My name is Mr.Desmond Momoh, and I work in the Credit & foreign
Accounts Department of Merchant Bank of Nigeria Limited, Lagos-Nigeria.I am
writing you in respect of a distinguished foreign customer with our bank,
who died in a Plane Crash, His name is Engr.Frank Carlson, He was among
those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria in the year 2002 May
4th.Since the demise of this our customer, who was an oil
Merchant/contractor,I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and
accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as
next of kin to the late Engineer.
Let me quickly refer you to the front page of (BBC) World News of Saturday,
4th May 2002,). You can check it through their websiteat)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm
He had Deposit valued @ US$6.7 mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is
only an insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit
particulars.As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce
the needed information other than my very self considering my position in
the bank as his account officer.Based on the reason that nobody has come
forward to claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your
cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send
these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between
myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the information because
I have removed the deposit file from the safe.
If you agree to do business with me, the following information will be
needed to file out an application form of claim in your name immediate to
enable the release of the fund to you by the holding bank.
1. Telephone and fax numbers for easy contact,
2. Your residential/home mailing address for correspondence mails
3. Your full Names
The above needed information is to enabl the easy processing of the transfer
in your name and favour. Finally i want you to understand that the request
for a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a Nigerian cannot
represent as next of kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss the
ratio of disbursement between us.
Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
Mr.Desmond Momoh
MERCHANT BANK NIGERIA LIMITED (FBNM)
(ACCOUNT OFFICER)
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