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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: "William Ansah" <william_a204@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: w_willsim03@tatanova.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:25:25 -0700
Subject: Hello Friend
FROM MR. WILLIAM ANSAH
Greetings to you,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to
you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and
become great friends and business partners. My name is Mr. William Ansah,
the present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana. I write you this proposal
in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am
about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a transaction that will benefit
both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner.
I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last December
I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in Kumasi who passed
on, so that was how I became the present Manager and discovered a fortune.
As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $12,500,000
million that has not been operated on for the past 4 years. From my investigation,
I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr. Morris Thompson an
American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately
lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read
more news about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank
and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,
the account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of
the account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money
as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no one is aware
of the account. I cannot directly take out this money without the help
of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to
claim the funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my bank branch,
I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner
that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information
concerning the account, which I shall give you.
I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to you. There
is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.
If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share
the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact
me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together,
so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless
you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent response.
You can as well contact me by fax, +233 27621073 and my phone number is
+233208216645.
Regards,
Mr. William Ansah.
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