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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: pat_lahorda@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 04:33:34 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REQUEST?=
FROM THE DESK OF PATRICK LAHORDA
UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC
LAGOS NIGERIA
36/40 Marina Street Lagos
E-mail: patlahorda2000@albawaba.com
pat_lahorda@zipmail.com.br
Dear sir,
Request for Business Partnership
I am Mr. Patrick lahorda, manager bills and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of this bank. (Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc) I got your email during
a personal research on the Internet in my bid to look for a reliable foreign
partner to partake in this transaction.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$22 million (twenty
two million united states dollars only) in a domiciliary account that belong
to one of our foreign customers Dr. Thomas J. Walter an American oil consultant/contractor
who died in a ghastly plane crash in march 1997 aboard Kenya airways along
with his entire family.
Since we got the information about his death, we have expected his next
of kin to come over and claim the money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relations died along with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. it is upon this discovery therefore,
that I and some key officials in my department now decided to make business
with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation of
the deceased for safe-keeping and subsequent disbursement with you since
nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to be recycled into
the banks bounded account as an unclaimed fund.
The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigeria cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner. We have agreed that 30% of this money will
be for you as foreign partner, thereafter I and my colleagues will visit
your country for the disbursement according to the agreed percentages. Personally,
I would want you to advise me on the best area of investment because I am
considering investing the greater proportion of my share in your country.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged,
you should first apply to the bank as the next of kin or business partner
of the deceased indicating your account details wherein the money will be
remitted. Upon receipt of your reply mail, I shall send to you the text
of the application which you will be required to summit to the bank for
the bank's procedural authentication and immediate remittance of the money
to the account you are going to nominate.
As soon as you receive this mail, do contact me at once through my above
indicated e-mails, at once and indicate your private and confidential telephone,
fax and e-mail for the effective communication.
Be informed that all the enabling logistics for the immediate transfer of
the fund once we proceed have been in place and be rest assured that the
transaction is absolutely risk-free.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Patrick Lahorda.
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