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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: "Mrs Joy TITUS" <mrsjoytitus2000@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrsjoytitus2000@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:26:00 +0100
Subject: Very urgent.
From:The Desk of Mrs Joy Titus
Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Republic of Benin. West Africa.
STRICTLY SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Friend,
Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you.
I am Dr (Mrs) Joy Titus, from (AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK),Republic of Benin.During
the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of twelve million five hundred
thousand united states dollars (USD$12.500.000.00) floating in an account
opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operated on this
account again, and after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane
crash, hence the money is floating.
After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this account
except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that untill his
death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(African Development
Bank)Benin Rep.got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come forward 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 and policies but up to date nobody
came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department
now decided to make this
businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin
or elation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming forth and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury
as unclaimed Bill. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall
be used as the next of kin as no one has come up as his relation.
And the country law here does not allow such money to stay more than Five
years, for the money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed
after this period. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you
the application form, bank's contact and the next step to take. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you
should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be
finalized within fourteen banking days, after you apply to the bank as a
relation to the deceased.
It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out
to defray any expences that might be incured during the process of the ransaction.
Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have
been remitted into your bank account.
When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision,
Including your private informations.
1.Your Full name /adddress .
2.Telephone number.
3. Fax numbers.
This will enable us for quick communication. I will be very happy if you
can treat this business with the utmost secrecy it demands because of my
position in this bank.
Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you.
Best Regards,
Mrs Joy Titus.
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