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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: "George Akwa" <gakwa9513@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gakwa9513@live.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:03:46 +0100
Subject: NEW UNREAD MESSAGE==============> VERY URGENT.
Hello Dear,
as mentioned in the subject matter, I have an obscure business interest to
share with you. It's understandable that you might be a little apprehensive
because you do not know me. I am Mr. George Akwa, an account officer to Mr.
Alex Wilson, a national of Pakistan. My deceased client made some fixed
deposit valued (Seven Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars) USD
7,500,000.00, in our Bank here. Upon maturity, I have been given a deadline
mandate by the Bank to provide the next of kin and beneficiary to the fund
as the account officer hence failure to do that, the fund will be
confiscated and declared unserviceable by the Bank and government of Ghana,
regards to this, I have exhaustively made efforts to locate the next of
kin/beneficiary, or any relative of my deceased client all to no avail and
not successful.
My purpose of contacting you is to seek your consent and to portray you to
the bank as the next of kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund. Since you
are a foreigner like him, remember that I can not do this business alone
without a strong assistant from a foreigner like you. The main reason of
this email is to open communication with you and to discuss properly and
modalities.
I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successfully, I will prepare the necessary document that will back
you up as the next of kin/beneficiary to the fund interlaid that will enable
onward transfer to your local account in your country. We are going to adopt
a legalized method in the whole matter that will protect you from any breach
of the law. There is a reward for this project and it is a task worth
undertaking.
However, if the proposal does not conform with your Ethics please, do accept
my sincere apologies. If on the contrary, could you kindly open a
correspondence with me, after which I shall furnish you with more
information on this operation? Para venture you are interested in this
proposal do please fill the detailed form below, and please forward all
future correspondence to me as soon as possible. I have both the death
certificate of the deceased and the funeral pictures as evidence, all these
certificates will be forwarded to the bank along with an application letter
which I have to draft in your favor for you to fill and send to the bank
upon a concrete arrangement and agreement with both parties.
PERSONAL DATA
FULL NAMES:________________________________________
GENDER____________________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH:_____________________________________
NATIONALITY: _______________________________________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: ___________________________
MARITAL STATUS: __________________________________
HOME ADDRESS:____________________________________
OFFICE ADDRESS:___________________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:________________________________
FAX NUMBER:________________________________________
OCCUPATION:________________________________________
POSITION HELD:______________________________________
EMAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________________
Yours Service.
Mr. George Akwa.
Director, Audit department.
International Commercial Bank of Ghana.
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