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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.Maduka" <maduka_md001@yahoo.com.au> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:35:33 +0100
Subject: Dear Nesch,Get Back To Me.
Bank Of Africa House
Benin Republiqic
Tel:+229-587 613
E-Mail:maduka@zwallet.com
CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE
Dearest Nesch, i decided to contact you base that you will be honest with me
for this urgent transaction which is 100%risk free.I am the Manager of
Bill and Exchange of the foreign operation department Bank Of Africa Sarl Cotonou Republic-Du- Benin.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $25.8Million
Dollars(Twenty Five Million, Eight Hundred thousand United States
Dollars Only)in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died in December 2003 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his Next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as Next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,unfortunately we learn that all his supposed Next of Kin or relations died along with himat the plane crash leaving nobody with theknowledgen of this funds behind
for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other senior
officials in the department now decided to make business with you since the man is from your country so that we can release the money to you as the Next of Kin or a relation of the deceased for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go back into Federal Government Account as Unclaimed Bill. The Banking Law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained unclaimed after three years the money would be transferred into the Banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as Next of Kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was foreigner and a Benin
cannot stand as a Next of Kin to a foreigner.We agreed that 25%
percent(Negotiable)of this money will be for you as foreign
partner.Thereafter my two other colleagues and I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages
indicated. Please be honest to me. Therefore, to enable the immediate
transfer of the fund to you as arranged you must apply first to the
Bank as relation or Next of Kin of the deceased. Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the "Text of the Application" with the Name of the Deceased and his country and other information about him.
Note: This transaction is confidential/risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail, you should contact me at once through the above
statedconfidential,E-mail address.
Thanks, Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours sincerely
Maduka .
HOPE HEARING FROM YOU.
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