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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: "okwudili obe" <okwudili_obe1@handbag.com>
Reply-To: okwudili_obe1@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:21:00 +0100
Subject: NEXT OF KIN
FROM THE DESK OF OKWUDILI OBE ,MANAGER.
STANDARD TRUST BANK LTD
LAGOS NIGERIA.
Attention,
SIR,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being
utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day. Let me start by first introducing myself properly to
you. I am OKWUDILI OBE , a MANAGER with the
STANDARD TRUST Bank Nigeria LTD. Lagos. I came to
know of you in my private search for a reliable and
reputable person to handle this confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a
foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil
Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, until his death nine years ago in a ghastly
air crash, banked with us here at Standard Trust Bank
LTD. Lagos, and had a closing balance of US$38.5M
(Thirty Eight Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any
available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary
or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college
here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being
made by the Standard Trust Bank to get in touch with
any of the Creek family or relatives but proved to avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not
being able to locate any of Late Engr. Johnson Creeks
next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that
the management under the influence of our chairman and
member of the board of directors, that an arrangement
be made for the funds to be declared UNCLAIMABLE and
subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to
further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, some of
my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.
Johnson Creek so that the funds US$38.5M would be
released and paid into your bank account as the
beneficiary?s next-of-kin. All documents and proves
to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked
out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk
free involvement.
Your 35% share stays while the rest would be for my
colleagues and myself for investment purposes in your
country.
If this proposal is OK by you,then kindly get to me
immediately via the aboveE-MAIL ADDRESS:okwudili_obe1@yahoo.com
Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I
can use these information to apply for the release and
subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour.
Thank you in co-operation Yours faitfully.
MR , OKWUDILI OBE
MANAGER, STANDARD TRUST BANK LTD LAGOS
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