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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: Fred Ibru <fredibuchambers@ymail.com>
Reply-To: fredibruchamber@sify.com
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:51:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR FULL ATTENTION TO FINISH THIS PROJECT.
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: fredibuchambers@ymail.com
- From the desk of Barrister. Fred Ibru Esq. Of Fred Ibru Chambers. 16 Norman Williams Street Ikoyi. Lagos-Nigeria. Email address: fredibruchamber@sify.com From: Barr. Fred Ibru Esq. To Whom It May Concern I am Barr. Fred Ibru Esq. an Attorney at Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria. I am the Personal Attorney to Engr. Mike Thomas Wagner, an American/ Canadian by Birth, who was a contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my Client. On the 21st of April 2006 my client, his wife and their three Children were involved in a fatal car Accident along Saga mum Express road all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquires to Several Embassy to locate any of my clients extended Relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last Name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family !
that also proofed unsuccessful hence I contacted you. So that I can present you to the bank as the next of kin to my late client and the bank will not hesitate to pay you this money for both our benefit. 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 Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about (US$22.5m) Twenty Two Million Five Hundred United States Dollars. The Bank Has issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin or have the Account confiscated within the next 21 working days. Since I have been Unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 8 months 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 (US$22.5M) Twenty Two Million Five Hundred United States Dollars can be paid to you for both our benefit. This Money !
can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money, All Necessa
ry legal documents will be in place that can be used to back up any Claim we may make. All I require is your honest Co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please do get in touch with me through email address as stated above for more Details, once I have your consent and trust then we can proceed immediately. Your anticipated response is urgently needed. Yours Truly, Barrister. Fred Ibru (Esq.) Attorney at Law. Federal Republic of Nigeria
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