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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: "Philip John" <philip_john00@fsmail.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: philipjohn01@indiatimes.com
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:42:59 +0100
Subject: Assistance
FROM: philip john.
Investment Banking and Trust company (IBTC),
Walter Carrington Place,
Victoria Island, Lagos.
Dear Friend,
It is my humble pleasure to write this letter
irrespective of the fact that you do not know me.
My name is philip john, a staff in the private banking
sector of the bank. I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of my bank who died mysteriously.
Since the demise of this our customer I personally
have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin
but all has proved abortive as no one has come to
claim his funds of USD$32.5 m, (Thirty Two Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has
been with my branch for a very long time, now
unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of
his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be
donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and
ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts made by the Bank to get in
touch with any of the deceased's next of kin (he had
no known wife and children) has been unsuccessful.
The management under the influence of our chairman and
board of directors are making arrangement for the fund
to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE? and then be subsequently
donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition,
which will further enhance the course of war in Africa
and the world in general.
On this note I decided to seek for a capable person
that his name shall be used as the next of kin, as no
one has come up to be the next of kin.
The banking ethics here does not also allow such money
to stay more than six years, because the money will be
recalled to the banks treasury unclaimed after this
period,
I will give you 20% of the total.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by
fax or e-mail the application, bank's fax number and
the next step to take for fund transfer can be
finalized within five banking days, after you apply to
the bank as a relation to the deceased.
When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail
signifying your decision.
Respectfully submitted,
philip john.
Private Banking
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