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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 Collins Goodvine" <hawwol_dept27@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: collinsgood25@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:12:55 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend,
*Dear Friend,
Firstly, I sincerely apologize for breaking into your privacy, however I
have decided to contact you through this medium due to the urgency of this
proposed business transaction. I got your contact over the Internet during
my search for assistance in this mutual beneficial business
transaction.
I must first solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and \ldblquote
TOP SECRET\rdblquote . Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, considering the
fact that we have not met each other before, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day.
I am an accountant with ZENITH BAN PLC, My name is Mr.Collins Akuabia
Goodvine. I am the Personal Account officer to Engineer. Andrew Wilson, a
National of your country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF
PETROLEUM RESOURCES,VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS. Herein after shall be referred to
as my client On 30 JAN 2000,my client, his wife and their three children
were involved in the Kenya Airways flight with registration number
5Y-BEN which departed from Nairobi to destination Lagos and all the
passengers
on-board and the flight crew, including his family died in this fatal
aircrash on 30 JAN 2000.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were
lodged,particularly the ZENITH BANK PLC.,Where the deceased had an account
valued at about ($10 Million US Dollars) has issued me a notice to provide
the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official
working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over two years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($10 Million US Dollars) can
be paid to you and then you and I can share the money 50% to me and 40% to
you. While 10% for unforeseen bottle necks we might
incure in this transaction an attorney will be contracted to help us
revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make.
To commence this transaction, I require you to immediately indicate your
interest and enclose your private contact telephone & fax numbers, full
names & address to enable the process of this transaction in your favor and
to effect the necessary approvals.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through. Iguarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.
Please I await your possitive response to enable us discuse further.
Best regards,
Mr.Collins Akuabia Goodvine
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