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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: "drugo madu" <drugomadu@africanunion-developmentbank.org>
Reply-To: dr_ugomadu@sify.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:41:03 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
(A.U.D.B) AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA.
DESK OF : Dr Ugo Madu
Lagos-Nigeria.
RC.27199
E- mail- dr_ugomadu@sify.com
Dear Sir,
STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am Dr.Ugo Madu, The manager, Bills and Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department of the A.U.D.B
Bank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to ask
for your support and cooperation to carry out this
business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $15,000,000M
USDOLLARS (15 million United States Dollars only) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family of a
wife and two children in
2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines Plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting
his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his
money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund
from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their
family member nor distant relative has everappeared to
claim the said fund.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my
department have agreed to make business with you and
release the total amount into your maintained
account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be
returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as
stated thus;
20 % for you as foreign partner,
75 % for us the officials in my department and
5 {% for the settlement of all local and foreign
expences incurred by us and you during the course of
this transaction
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and
one of my colleagues will come to your country and
mind our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to
import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a
way of
recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction, we require you to
immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail
and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax
number full name and address and your designated bank
coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals before
the transfer can be made.
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.
I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Dr, Ugo Madu.
The manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department.
FOR: AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA
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