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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: "Mr Petrov Isabelle" <petrov_isabelle009@superposta.com>
Reply-To: petrov_isabelle001@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:17:24 +0100
Subject: Your urgent call is needed if you are interested.+22678842134
From Mr. Petrov Isabelle.
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Tel:+22678842134
Good Day
I know that this message may come to you as a surprise since we do not know
each other before, but for purpose of introduction, I am Mr Petrov Isabelle,
an Auditor in (BOA) Bank of Africa. During my auditing work in the bank, I
found out about an account opened in this bank in 1993 and since 1999 nobody
has operated on this account. After goingthrough some old files in the
record, I discovered that the owner of this account is Mr. Smith B. Andreas,
a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Gold Co., who died since 1999.
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 his Company does not know anything about this account and the amount
involved is Ten Million Three
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD$10.3M).
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the
account Mr. Smith B. Andreas is a foreigner too.
I need your full co-operation to make this work, because the management is
ready to
approve the transfer of this money to any foreigner who has correct
information
of this account, which I will give to you later. If you are able and willing
to handle
such amount in strict confidence and according to my instructions and advice
for our mutual benefit because this is a lifetime opportunity.
With my position now in the office I can lobby for the transfer of this
money to your account, which you will provide with the assurance that the
money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for
sharing.
I will destroy all the documents of this transaction immediately this money
is transferred, leaving no trace to any place. I will apply for my annual
leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and
receive this fund in your account.
I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of
the ministries and foreign exchange departments. Please reply urgently so
that I will inform you the next step to take immediately.
Send also your private telephone and fax numbers including your
international passport. At the conclusion of this business, you will get
20% of the total amount, 75% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses
both parties might incur during the transfer process.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours faithfully.
Mr. Petrov Isabelle.
Tel:+22678842134
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