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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: "CLEOPAS K. SHUBANE" <cleopas_bane@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cleo_shub@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:59:04 -0700
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION.PLEASE INDICATE INTEREST!
MR. CLEOPAS K SHUBANE
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
ATTN: DIRECTOR/C.E.O
Courtesy of business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong
desire to solicite for your assistance on this mutual beneficiary and risk free
transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise,
I am MR. CLEOPAS K SHUBANE the manager of
bills/exchange at the foreign remittance department of First Rand Bank Limited. In
my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 25.5 Million (Twenty five Million
FiveHundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs toone
of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie
Pan American Airline plane crash. Since we got information about his death,
we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedures, but
unfortunately to no avail and nobody has come forward to claim the money.
Therefore, upon this discovery that I and other two officials in my
department now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you,
hence my contacting you.
We want you to purportedly present your good self as the next of kin or
relation of the deceased so that we can release the fund (money) into your
account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and again we do not want the money to go into the
government account as unclaimed bill .The banking law and procedures herein
stipulates that any accounts abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is subject to be
closed and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the government
treasury account. Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into government treasury account as unclaimed fund on or before
December 2004. The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.
Mode of Sharing After the successful completion of thetransfer is as follows,
for the role you will be expected to play in the
whole exercise, we have agreed to give you twenty (20%) of the total sum,
and 10% has been set aside for the expenses we are going to encounter by
both parties in the process of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall
be for my colleagues and I. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged
to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business.
After your reply, you will be advised on the next step afterwards.
I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
top secret and confidential. Your interest will be equally protected, as we must
maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from you THROUGH
MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:cleo_shub@hotmail.com
Count on your earliest reply.
Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR.Cleopas K Shubane
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