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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: "Barrister Wise Jackson" <bwjackson@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: barristerwj_com@myway.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:43:25 +0000
Subject: Please I Do Need Your Help, Urgentlly Please.
Dear Friend,
May I first apologies for this unsolicited mail to you. I am aware that
this is certainly an unconventional approach of starting a business
relationship but as time goes on you will realize the need for my action.
My name is Barrister Wise Jackson a Solicitor and advocates, I was an
attorney to late Mr. James Hutchinson, an American who worked with an
Oil company in Republic Of Ghana. On the 21st of August 2001 my client, his wife
and their three children were involved in a ghastly motor accident along
Motor-Way Express road. My Client and his entire family unfortunately lost
their lives in the accident. Since then I have made several enquirers
to the embassy to locate any of my Client's extended relatives, which has
proved abortive.
My main reason for contacting you is for you to assist me in repatriating the
money and properties left behind by my Client before they are
confiscated or declared un serviceable by the bank where they are deposited.
Particularly, a Finance Company where my late client has a fixed deposit of [$26.4m] Twenty six Million, Four Hundred Thousand United State Dollars the said Bank has issued me a final notice to provide the next of kin of my Client or they will be left with no other option than to confiscate this fund.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my client's relatives
for the past three years I seek your consent to present you as the next
of kin of the disease, which is my client. I have all the necessary legal documents that
can be use as backup any claim we may make. All I require is your
honest cooperation to enable this deal go through. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from
any breach of the law here in Ghana and internationally.
You should also assure that you will not tell people about this
business until we conclude it, as exposing it now may jeopardize our chances
of concluding fast. This fund shall be transferred to you first, before we
will then share it as agreed. I shall need your help to invest my share
in your country, so any experience you have in this area will be
beneficial. I will need your most confidential telephone and fax numbers, if
you have a mobile phone I believe it will help so that we can reach you
anytime.
Please get back to me as soon as possible; your positive or negative
response is welcomed. For security reasons send your reply to this E-mail
address: [barristerwj_com@myway.com] for further information.
Best Regards,
Barrister Wise Jackson,
Attorney At Law.
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