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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: "Mr. Brian West." <b_west1968@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: brian_w4u@yahoo.com.mx
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:48:19 +0400
Subject: Mr. Brian West.
FROM: THE DESK OF MR.BRIAN WEST.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & RECORD GROUP HEAD, BUSINESS SUPPORT GROUP.
UNION NATIONAL BANK. HEAD OFFICE, U.N.B BUILDING SALAM STREET.
P.O.BOX 3865 ABU-DHABI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
DEAR FRIEND,
Am sorry that this letter will come to you as a surprise. I am Mr. Brian West the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & RECORD GROUP HEAD, BUSINESS SUPPORT GROUP Union National bank (U.N.B). I got your contact information from a yahoo tourist search when I was searching for a foreign partner to assist me in carrying out this project and I have this confidence in you that you are the right person to handling this project.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of five million, eight hundred thousand United States dollars (USD 5.8M) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along side with his entire family on (Monday 31St July 2000) in a plane crash. Please take a look on this site for more details regarding the plane crash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since the death of this deceased customer, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody apply as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
But is unfortunately that all our efforts to find his next of kin is of no avail and now the board of directors of our bank who are the local indigenes are planning to transfer the fund in the bank treasury as unclaimed fund since no body has ever apply for this claim.
Therefore upon this discovery, I have decided to make this deal proposal to you and release the fund to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this deal is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and no local indigenes here can stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I have agreed that 30% commission of the total money will be given to you for the work well done, 10% has also been set aside for expenses incurred from both side during the transaction and the remaining 60% will be for me. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as I have arranged and have done all the necessary paper work's to enable the smooth transfer of this fund.
Firstly I will direct you on how to apply for the claim of this fund as the next of kin to the deceased customer and I will back you up with all the vital documents/information's that the bank will demand from you as the rightful beneficiary. Meanwhile if you agreed to carry-out this project kindly send to me your complete contact details along-side with your direct phone and fax numbers for effective communication with you.
NOTE: upon receipt of your response to carry-out this project in good faith, I shall educate you more on the modalities of this deal and please you must maintain utmost confidentiality base on the fact that am still a staff working with the bank to avoid any leakage/slip of information's. Also I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk free involvement hence every necessary home work has been perfected ok for the smooth transfer of the fund.
Expecting your urgent response.
Best Regards,
Mr. Brian West.
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