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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: James Uche <jamuche@cs-solutions.net>
Reply-To: jamuche@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:04:16 -0500
Subject: Letter of Intent
From the desk of:
Mr. James Emeka uche
Cometh Bank Plc.
Victoria Island Branch Lagos.
Dear Sir/Madam,
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 all will be well at the end of the day, we have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction as we feel that you may have the ability to handle such transaction.
Let me start by introducing myself to you, I am Mr. James Emeka Uche an Accountant with Cometh Bank Plc. Lagos. I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential business transaction.
The Preposition:
A foreigner, late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell, an oil merchant/contractor with the federal government of Nigeria until his death in Korean air flight 801, which crashed in Guam on august 1997, banked with us here at Cometh Bank Plc., Victoria Island branch and had a closing balance of US$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which the bank Unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next of kin of the late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms
and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.
Fervently, valuable effort were made by the cometh bank to get in touch with any of the Daligh's family or relative but proved to no avail. it is because of the perceived possibly of not being able to locate any of the late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell's next of kin (he had no wife and children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman and Members of the Boards of Directors, Retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared un-claimable and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms and ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general as stated in the our financial constitution that any unclaimed deposited fund after four years be converted.
In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as the Next-of-kin to Engr. Dahlig Mitchell so that the funds US$ 20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be careful worked out and more so we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest will be for me and my colleague for investment purpose in your Country.
If this proposal is all right by you then kindly get back to me immediately, for us to proceed in the execution of this life time opportunity.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. James Emeka Uche
(Accountant Cometh Bank Plc)
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