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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.Isa Davis" <isad10@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:51:49 -0800
Subject: Fwd:Our Discussion
From:MR.ISA DAVIS
Head, Banking Operations,
Pacific Merchant Bank Ltd.
Victoria Island Lagos,
Nigeria.
TEL.234-803-725-1842
Sir.
CONFIDENTIAL LETTER
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
a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the transaction.
We have decided to contact you by e-mail due to the
urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably
informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
For the purpose of introduction, I am MR.ISA DAVIS,
Head, Banking Operations, Pacific Merchant Bank
Ltd, in charge of personal and corporate accounts
above US$5,000,000.00(five million US Dollars only). I
came to know of you in my private search for a
reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential transaction which involves the transfer
of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring
maximum confidence.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner,Mr.Christian Eich an engineer who ran carmaker
BMW's museum until his death on 25th July,2000 in a plane
crash disaster,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
banked with us here at Pacific Merchant Bank Ltd.,
Lagos,Nigeria and had a closing balance of USD$10.2M
( Ten Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only)
which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any
of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated
to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military
war college here in Nigeria.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by
the Bank to get in touch with any of the deceased family
or relatives but all have proved to no avail.It is because of the
perceived possibility of not going to be able to locate any of
the deceased next of kin that the management under the influence of our
Chairman,Board of Directors,Retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an
arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be subsequently
donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition which will further enhance
the course of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, myself
and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek
for your permission to have you stand as the deceased next
of kin so that the fund, USD$10.2M would be subsequently transferred
and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proof to enable you get this fund
have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you
a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30%
of the total amount,5% has been set aside for expenses
while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues
for investment purposes in your company or any country
of your choice where the returns on investment will be
optimal .
If this proposal is acceptable to you and you do not
wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow
on you and your company, then kindly get back to me
immediately via e-mail furnishing me with:
1.Your most confidential telephone Numbers
2.Fax number
3.Exclusive e-mail so that I can forward to you the
relevant details of this transaction.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Regards,
MR.ISA DAVIS
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