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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)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:47:41 -0800
Subject: From Michael
Mr. Michael Miller,
Accounting Officer,
HSBC BANK OF LONDON
8 CANADA SQUARE LONDON
E14 5HQ
m_miller040@yahoo.co.uk
Am Michael Miller of HSBC BANK OF LONDON. the Accounting Officer to late Mr.
Stewart Compt, a citizen of your country and a businessman. In July 2, 2004,
the
subject matter, Mr. Stewart died of a Sudden Cardiac Death: His personal
attorney
was soon able to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed.
Recently, I was contacted by the Bank Manager based on Mr. Stewart?s deposit
of
the sum of (£ 10.5m) "Ten Million five Hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling" with
the bank.
The bank however advised me to contact any of his relative because for the
past
four years now, the account have been dormant, and all dormant accounts are
usually reverted to government treasure as unclaimed after two years.
Based on this, I contacted his attorney and he informed me that the deceased
died
with no next of kin mentioned. He however immediately launched an
investigation
into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to
come
forward to claim his estate, but all attempts and effort to get in touch
with the
family or relations of Mr. Stewart from your country proved abortive.
For this reason, we decided to seek for a reliable and trustworthy person
whose
name shall be used as the next of kin. In the event, I got your contact via
the
internet of which I was convinced by providence that you could be used as
next of
kin since you share the same last name with him. I have also contacted you
due to
the ULTIMATUM of twenty one days from now and pressure from bank which says
that if I failed to provide them with the name of the next of kin, the
account will be
closed finally or redirected to government treasury as unclaimed funds as
constituted by law on banking industries/finance houses..
I await your positive response ASAP via my direct email address above so as
furnish you with private and privileged information that will give you more
insight
to this issue. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangements
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please let keep this
confidential.
regards,
Mr. Michael Miller
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