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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: "DR.TONY ELUMELU" <tonyelumelu001@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:47:13 -0500 (GMT+5)
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF DR TONY ELUMELU
DR. TONY ELUMELU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTS DEPT
FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB).
Hello,
I am the auditing and accounts operation Manager of of FIRST NATIONAL
BANK (FNB). In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of SIXTEEN
MILION AND FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers (Dr Farid Abas of Iraq National) who
died along with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash. For
more information about the crash visit this site:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws, but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside
with him in the plane crash.
His younger brother was killed by terrorist during his Governorship
election campaign in the city of Basra. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and we don't want this money to go into the bank's treasury as
unclaimed bill. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be
transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreign citizen.
I agree that 30percent of this money will be for you as a respect to
the provision of a foriegn account by you, and 70percent would be for
me. Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentage indicated. Therefore you have to apply first to our bank
as a relation or next of kin of the deceased, as soon as I hear from
you I send to you the exact application for you to retype it and resend
to me to enable me push in the application officially. I will want you
to send to me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy and
effective communication.
Note that this transaction is hitch-free because I as a banker have
all required arrangements to enable you receive the total amount from
my our bank by transfer or cash payment. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from
you immediately. Alternative email: tonyelumelu001@yahoo.com.sg
Yours Faithfully,
DR. TONY ELUMELU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTS DEPT
FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB).
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