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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: None <privateemail07@aol.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:16:11 +0100
Subject: READ CAREFULLY
Good Day,
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be
treated as such. As an attorney, I am aware of the various attrocities and
scams propagated over the internet but please this is not of such. I am
only contacting you in desperation out of the reality of the
circumstances and dilemma that I find myself. Please bear with me for now and do
not ask my name. I am a solicitor at law here in the United Kingdom. I
was the personal attorney/sole executor to a certain man (I will let
you know his full details once you confirm your willingness to do this
with me), who shall hereinafter be referred to as 'my client'. He worked
as an independent oil magnate in my country and died in a ghastly auto
crash with his immediate family on the 4th of October, 2000.
Since the death of my client in October of 2000, I have written several
letters to your country's embassy with intent to locate any of his
extended relatives to whom shall be bestowed upon as
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate but all such efforts have been to no
avail.
Moreso, I have received official letters of notice in the last few
weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confistication of his abandoned
personal assets in line with existing laws of the United kingdom by the
bank in which my client deposited the sum of 7.8 million U.S.D.
On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that
you bear a similar last name and citizenship with my deceased client, I
was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to
the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to
enable you, with my assistance, put up a claim to the bank in that
capacity as my deceased client valid relative.
I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar
last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim
in that capacity with my valid attestation to the bank that you are
indeed my client's true next of kin. I propose that 35% of the net sum
will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not
incur further expenses.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, kindly
signify your interest in your reply email and as soon as I obtain your
confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as
well as send to you the necessary documents as at when due, with which
you are to proceed and I shall direct you on how to put up the
application to the bank for the release of the funds to you.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by E-mail the next step
to take to facilitate this transaction in the shortest possible time. I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal shall be
entirely hitch-free and legally conducted. You should not entertain any
fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of
this transfer. All that will be required by the bank is for me to present
you as the closest relative to my deceased client. All I will require
from you now in your reply email is your exact full names (First Name,
Middle Name and Last name) and your current residential address so that
I can harmonize it with the brief that I am already preparing to send
to the bank holding the funds.
Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this from you.
Expecting to hear from you ASAP.
Best regards,
Mr. Fabian's Attorney
PS. Please be sure to send your response to privateemail07@aol.co.uk
because that's where I can only receive your response
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