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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: chigini2@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:25:43 -0800
Subject: REPLY
Sir,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of a Bank in Africa. In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12.5M
US Dollars (Twelve million five hundred thousand US
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customer who
died in November 1999 in a plane crash.
Since I got the information about his death, I have
been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim
his money because we cannot release it unless some
body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately, I feel that all his supposed next of
kin or relation may have died alongside with him at
the plane crash.
It is therefore upon this that I and other officials
in my department now decided to make this business
proposal to you, to 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 treasury as unclaimed
bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for
you as a respect to the provision of an over sea?s account,10%will be set
aside for any expenses during the business and 60% would be for me and my
colleagues.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you shall apply to the bank
as the relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, and your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication. This application,
will end up in my table. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.
For confidential purpose, reply this email address: ginika9_9@juno.com
Yours faithfully,
Chinedu Ginika
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