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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: jjabbot@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good Day!
¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:jjabbot11@yahoo.com.co
- Good day, This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it is treated assuch. My name is Jon Abbot,a solicitor at law.I am the personalattorney/sole executor to a client of mine, now deceased, and who worked as anindependent oil magnate in my country. He died in a car crash with his immediatefamily on the 4th of October,2000.Since the death of my client in Oct,2000,Ihave written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of hisextended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandonedpersonal estate,and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so,I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting alikely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line withexisting laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of 3.8 millionBritish Pounds On this note, I decided to search for a credible person who canhandle this claim, that I may, with your consent, present you to the"trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so asto enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of myclient. Therefore,to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first tocontact me signifying your interest, and as soon as I obtain your confidence, Iwill immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as fax or e-mailyou the documents, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct on how toput up an application to the bank and I propose that 35% of the net sum willaccrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur furtherexpenses. However,you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward toyou in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of your reply, Iwill send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bringto your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should notentertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for thecompletion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Sincerely,Jon Abbot
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