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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 Steven Benjamin" <steven1967benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:04 +0000
Subject: From : Mr. Steven Benjamin
From : Mr. Steven Benjamin
7477,golf estate cocody
Abidjan Cote de Ivoire.
Hello dear,
May this mail will find you in Good condition. Pls read this message and get
back to me urgent ly,i am serious about this. I am serious about this
business and I want you to take it so serious as I do so that we can achieve
our Goal.
It Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. I have the believe you that are a reputable, responsible and
trustworthy person I can do relay with for a partner and by matter of trust
I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere
transaction.
My name is Mr. Steven Benjamin, I am 42 years old young man and I am from
Cote D'Ivoire in west African Region, I am a banker here in ABIDJAN COTE
D'IVOIRE, I need a very good relationship with you and open minded so that
we can work together as one family and have this golden fortune that comes
my way that I want us to join our hands together and make the claim and
transfer of the money into your bank account in your country without any
problem.
Really, we do not know or have see each other before but, since the world is
a global village where one can be reached any where of his destination by
the means of communication with the help of the world technology of today.
Meanwhile, it was also after I went through your profile today been the very
first day I got your contact and decided to contact you because of what I
read from you profile and what l want to do with you.
My plans was that as soon as this transaction get through and you confirm
this money into your bank account, I will resign from my work with the bank
and come over to stay in your country and invest my own share of the money
since my country is no longer a country where one can stay and do investment
due to the political problems we have been having here ever since 5 years
now without end.
Your statue is good enough, due to the country you come from and I have the
believe that if we can understand our selves, we will achieve something good
from this project. My communicating with you today was very please to me and
I don't want to wait due to the urgency this transaction needed mostly.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of ¤ 9.5m ( Nine Million,
Five Hundred Thousand Euros ). In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer here in my bank, who died along with his entire family
members in a plane crash in the year 2005 in that almost took the whole life
of the passengers on board.
Since I got this information about his death, I have been expecting his
next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because I cannot apply for it
as the next-of-kin, associate or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking rules and guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that all his
supposed next-of-kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this transaction
proposal to you after many years that I have kept it with me without letting
nobody in the bank know about this business, so that the fund will be
release to you as the real next-of-kin. Since nobody is coming for the
claiming of this fund and I don't want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. Pls, this is an opportunity for you and me.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, that the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury account as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next-of-kin or associate in this transaction
is needed occasioned by the fact that the customer is from your same area
and I am a citizen of this town, I can not stand as his next-of-kin or
associate. Please my dear, If you are ready, willing and capable to handle
this project with me.
Meanwhile, I will like that you include your full address and phone number
in response to this mail for more discusion on the execusion and shaering of
the fund. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING .
Yours Faithfuly,
Mr. Steven Benjamin.
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