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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: "demola sogunle" <demola1@blastnet.org>
Reply-To: drdemola1@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:45:22 +0200
Subject: RESPONSE NEEDED
Dr. Demola Sogunle
Investment Banking & Trust Co Nigeria
secured email:drdemola1@netscape.net
Dear Partner
I am Dr. Demola Sogunle, Treasury and Financial
Services under the
management of Investment Banking & Trust Co.(IBTC)
here in Nigeria Our
firm is a security company of high repute with years
of outstanding
service to the People of Nigeria and Africa.
I have decided to contact you through this medium
based on business
proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us.
I have not
discussed this transaction with anybody because it is
of top secret.
To be explicit and straight to the point. Some time
early 1997, a
reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in
our company's vault for
safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to
come forward to
claim his consignment, which has accumulated a
considerable amount of
money in demurrage. Consequently, in our bid to
contact this client to
redeem the demurrage which his consignment had
accumulated we discovered
that our client is dead.
Since the death of our client who happens to be the
late President of
the former republic of Zaire –(Chief President Mobutu
Sesse seko), none
of his benefactors has come forward to claim the
consignment with us,
which means that none of his relatives or aids had any
knowledge of this
consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to
secretly open the two
boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to
my surprise I
discovered that the two boxes that were registered as
family treasures by
our client actually contained a considerable amount of
money in United
States Dollars amounting to about US$15million and I
immdiately
deposited the funds in our clients escrow account.
Since this development, I
have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out
from enquiries and
the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot
of money from his
country while he was in office as head of state. It is
my conviction
that the consignment in our vault was part of the
money that our client
siphoned, and now that he is dead there is no trace to
this money in our
care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to
assist me in
transferring this money out of Nigeria to your country
for immediate
investment with your assistance. I have also decided
that you will generously be
entitled to 15% of the total amount. Upon my receipt
of your reply
confirming your willingness to assist me on this
transaction, I will
immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of
ownership of this
consignment to your name to facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the
complete funds to your country. Secondly, I will
arrange for the
consignment already labelled as family treasure to be
lifted by diplomatic
means to our company's correspondence in Amsterdam,
Spain or Canada Or to
any corresponding office near you, where I will meet
with you. You have
nothing to worry about, as I will be there
to assist you in anyway necessary with all proper
documentation. This
transaction is 100% risk free.
Please maintain absolute confidentiality on this
matter. Please reply
to the above email address drdemola1@netscape.net or
call me immediately
upon the receipt of this letter.
Thanks.
Dr.Demola.
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