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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: "yakasia mohammed" <yakasiamoham2@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: yakasiahaji04@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:22 +0100
Subject: FROM:ALH YAKASIA BANK MANAGER
FROM:ALH YAKASIA BANK MANAGER
(UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)
MARINA LAGOS
Private email:yakasiahaji1@hotmail.com
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though
I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Alh Yakasia,
a Manager at the Union Bank Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you in
my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account requiring maximum confidence. A foreigner, Late Engineer Ahmed Farid,
an oil Merchant /contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria,until
his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at
the Union Bank PLC ,Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$7.2M (Seven
Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next
of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms
and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch
with any of his next of kin (he had no known wife and children) that the
management under the influence of our chairman, board of directors, Retired
Major General (Egbuna O Egbu), that an arrangement for the fund to be declared
"UNCLIAMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms
and Ammunition, which will further enhance the course of misunderstanding
among us here. In order to avert this negative development, myself and some
of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have
you stand as his next of kin so that the fund, USD$7.2M, would be subsequently
transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully
worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while
the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country.
If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my private e-mail address (yakasiahaji1@hotmail.com)furnishing me with
your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, full names and mailing
address so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation
Regards.
ALH. YAKASIA
(MANAGER UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
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