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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: "Eustance Okoro" <eokoro44@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:35:06 +0100
Subject: Between you and i
FROM THE DESK OF MR. E. OKORO,
THE BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
OF UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Dear friend,
I have tried many times to contact you, I will be pleased, if you
reply me. Mean while, I am Mr. Eustance Okoro, the Bill and Exchange
Manager at the Foreign Remittance Department of UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC. I
got your contact from the Internet while searching for an honest and trust
worthy person from United Kingdom that will assist me to implement this
transfer.
I discovered the sum of twenty two million and five hundred thousand
United States Dollars belonging to a deceased customer of this bank.
The fund has been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put
claim over the money since the account owner late Mr. Stefonv Karismir from
your country, who was involved in the Oct. 29th 2006 Nigeria plane crash.
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose
owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the
deceased customer of the bank. Since we got information about his
death, we have been expecting his next if kin to come over and claim
his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines and laws. But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or family died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it. And I don't want this fund to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of you as next
of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. I therefore solicit for your assistance to come forward as
the next of kin.
I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me. While 5% will be for expenses incurred during
the cause of this transaction. I expect you to keep this
business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know that
I am Bank official. Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk
free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money to the
Account you are going to provide have been concluded provided we
maintain the confidentiality and security involved.
Contact me on my email address (eokoro1@live.com) I am looking forward for
your prompt response. Send me your information as follow: Your Full Name,
contact address, Telephone Number,Mobile Number, Fax Number, Occupation, Sex
and Age.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Eustance Okoro.
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