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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: "Barr.Michael Omas" <michaelomas@virgilio.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: michael_omas@yahoo.dk
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:51:07 +0100
Subject: CALL ME:TEL:234-1-4757598
BARR.MICHAEL OMAS
REPLY TO :michael_omas@yahoo.dk
TEL:234-1-4757598
I am BARR.MICHAEL OMAS, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to late Mr.Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000.
You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html and also
in this website, where Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife there. Mr. Chapman Hailed from United States Of America.
Since the death of Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. Icame across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project to know if you are the Next Of Kin to Late Chapman and his family.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Chapman, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by Eco Bank Plc where my client operates an account worth $USD7.5 Million Dollars. The board of Eco Bank Plc has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.
Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Chapman's relatives for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner,and have thesame last name,sothat the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD7.5 Million Dollars can bereleased to you for our disbursments.
Upon the receipt of the following,i will make sure i submit them to the Central Computing Unit of the Bank as the Next Of Kin to my late
client:
1.Your Full Name(first and last name)
2.Resident address
3.Phone Numbers
4.Age
5.Occupation
6.Bank account details(where you want the funds to be enacted into).
I have worked out the modalities for the persecution of this transaction which had meets all necessary requirements in our country and those of international arbitration.
It may interest you to know that our former minister of petroleum collaborated with a foreigner to transfer the sum of us12.5million in an account in the United States Of America(USA),only for him to arrive as the fellow had disappearred with the whole money and relocated his line to someone else.Although business is all about risk,i want to minimized the risk involved in this that is why i am soliciting for your confidentiality and sincertity towards achieving this luadable goal.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. Chapman was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of Eco Bank Plc.Further details awaits your response by email. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.I will send to you the Death and eposit certificates,which yu are to send to the Bank.
You can also email me on this alternative email address: michael_omas@yahoo.dk or better still you call me for more details.
Yours faithfully,
BARR.MICHAEL OMAS
CALL ME:TEL:234-1-4757598
REPLY TO :michael_omas@yahoo.dk
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