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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: "Barrister Smith Anderson" <smith_anderson2591@live.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:09:39 -1200
Subject: FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION!!!
Good Day,
I am sorry for bothering you and please do not be surprised
at this mail but I crave your indulgence to just give it
attention to convince yourself.
I am Barr. Smith Anderson, a solicitor at law. I am the
personal attorney to Scott Kennedy, a foreigner who was an
oil merchant here and used to work with Handebull
Construction & Oil Services in Nigeria hereinafter referred
as my client.
On the 6th of May, 2002 it was reported to us that my Client
and his wife were involved in a Local Plane Crash at Kano
State en route from Sokoto to Abuja (the capital city of
Nigeria), all occupants in the Plane lost their
lives,unfortunately on this same flight were other
dignitaries like the former Nigeria Sports Minister and a
host of others.
Since then I have made several inquiries to the embassies
here to locate any of my clients extended relations, these
effort proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to contact you after looking at your
profile and believing we can work together to actualize
this dream, hence I contacted you and I feel it is by
divine providence that I am contacting you in this matter.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund
valued at US$10.5 million left behind by my client before it
gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank,where
my late client operated his account. The bank has since
issued me a notice, to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated by their next board meeting.
For the fact that I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives during these past period of time, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased
and now that I have finally located you, I honestly think it
does not matter even if you are not related to my late
client the MOST IMPORTANT thing is that you are INTERESTED
to execute the matter with me and since he did not leave any
record behind even at the bank, i will have no problem to
convince the bank that you are related to him because it is
better for you and me to claim this money than for the bank
to seize it as unclaimed.
I will present you to the bank as a COUSIN to my late client
and I will secure all necessary legal documents to back up
this claim so that the proceeds of this account can be paid
to you, instead of the bank confiscating the money. I feel
the money will be more useful to you and me than the bank.
Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall
then discuss the modalities for transfer and I will give you
the full details. I have all necessary information and have
arranged to process all the relevant legal documents needed
to back you up for the claim.
All I require from you, is your honest co-operation to
enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement, that
will protect you from any breach of the law and as we
progress, you will also have the opportunity to confirm
directly from the bank about this deposit.
IMPORTANT: For more privacy of your reply. PLEASE REPLY TO
MY PERSONAL EMAIL: smith_anderson2591@live.com (THIS EMAIL
IS MORE PRIVATE TO ME) and I will give you my
telephone number for more details.
Respectfully,
Barrister Smith Anderson
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