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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: Nortonfinance.uk@live.com
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:35:50 -0400
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL FUNDING LOAN


Norton Finance Plc.
Central Processing Office,
Norton House Mansfield Road,
Rotherham,South Yorkshire.
S60 2EB
Dear Customer,
Permit a brief introduction of our service. Norton Finance plc is a registered company in the British entity. In our loan scheme tagged 'loan under two weeks',every customer both local and international have the guarantee of obtaining a loan from this company on the mode of unsecured offshore international funding which means no collateral is required for this process.In general we offer all type of loan such as constructive, car,hotel, mortgages,start up capital,working capital and lots more provided the project requiring funding is of a legitimate entity.
Our service has been repositioned and standardised to meet customers
demands in an economical way. Our interest charge is indeed
reasonable,we offer hassle free loan service where by customers are
allowed to make repayment over a long time span.
Lastly, we fund small scale loan firm, intermediaries,small scale
financial institutions for we have unlimited capital. To apply for a
loan, Kindly complete the below form and return back to us. Client
Requesting Loan Requested Information's
To Proceed:
**********************************
LOAN APPLICATION FORM
**********************************
A)Full Name:
B)Occupation:
C)Contact Address:D)Phone Number:
E)Amount Needed:
F)Proof Of Return Of Funds:G)Reason for seeking Loan:
For further details to go about procuring a loan from Norton Finance, contact Email: Nortonfinance.uk@live.com
Signed,
Management,On line finance
Mr David Anderson.

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