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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: "Mr.Gailu Fall." <mrgailumalick@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrgailumfall@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 06:57:56 +0000
Subject: Our progress transaction.
Dear Friend,
My name is El Gailu Malick, I am the credit manager in Pacific Bank here in Senegal Dakar district. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been well taken care off I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.To ease your apprehension, I got your contact from the International chambers of commerce and industry, foreign trade division.
I am the account officer of Mr. Chung Wyi who died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board formal Oil consultant & National adviser with the Senegalise National Petroleum.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking Proceedures. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out for the funds. thirteen, million dollars (US$13,000,00.00) in a domiciliary account to be released to you for our favour as the next of kin to the deceased. Because after five years the money will be confiscated to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from t
he probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name;.In order for me to prepare the PAPER WORK for transfer of the funds in your name. 2.Details particulars of your contact address.3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;.For our personal contact.
I shall be compensating you with 30% of the total sum on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, as I have also thought of doling out 5% to charity organisation from your locality based on your recommendation another 5% for the services of the lawyer or any necessary expences that may care while the balance 60% shall be for me for investment purposes in your country as. But if the ratio did not satisfy you please do not hesitate to let me know immediately so that will re-nagotiate.
i cannot bring back this cash to my country. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you by informing you of this transaction from my bank as I will advise you to kindly desist from responding at all if you do NOT intend to render any assistance.
Endeavour to respond via my confidential email address
Thanks and best regards,
El Gailu Malick.
The Branch Manager Pacific Bank Plc.
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