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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: "Cresswell Lewis" <l_lewis@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: Le_wis@africamail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:53:46 -0700
Subject: URGENT RESPONDS NEEDED
Dear Sir,
My name is Cresswell Lewis, I am the operational manager in account management
section incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks here
in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank
who perished with his whole families on 25TH JULY,2000 in CONCORDE PLANE
CRASH [Flight AF4590] with the whole passengers aboard.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1998 by this great late INDUSTRIALIST
who died without a written or oral 'WILL' attached to the account. Since
his death, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of
kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds and
no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager
of his company.
The total amount involved is 16,000,000.00 USD.[Sixteen Million United States
Dollar]. We wish to start the first transfer with $6,000,000.00[Six million]
and upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your side,
we shall re-apply for the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.
I have secretly discussed this matter with the general manager of the bank
who I must involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of
the fund to any foreign bank account which you are going to nominate. On
this note, I decided to seek for a reliable foreigner who will act as the
foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing his/her bank
account where the fund will be transferred for immediate investment on any
viable project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.
The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than six
years without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government treasury
as unclaimed after this long period of domancy.
In view of this I got your contact through my personal search to see if
you can assist by providing your safe bank account for the transfer or find
a reliable person who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or
her personal account. At the conclussion of the transfer 65% of the fund
will be for me, I will give you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity
both in Africa and in your country while the remaining 5% will be set aside
to settle expenses both parties might incure during the transfer process.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a detailed information
about the transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
business is 100% risk and trouble free and that you should not entertain
any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within 7 to
9 banking days, after you apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund
from the deceased.
When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail. You should also
include your private fax and phone numbers for easy and safe communication.
Respectfully Yours,
Cresswell Lewis.
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