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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: mrnicholasthorne4real@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:48:23 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?NEED=20YOUR=20URGENT=20APPRAISAL?=
Dear friend,
This is a proposal in context but actually an appeal
soliciting for your unreserved assistance in
consummating an urgent transaction requiring
maximum confidence. Though this approach appears
desperate, I can assure you that whatever questions
you would need to ask or any other thing you will need
to know regarding this proposal will be adequately
answered to give you a clearer understanding of it, so
as to arrive at a successful
conclusion.
My name is Mr. Nicholas Thorne, Head of Securities,
Royal Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen. On February 17,
2002, a foreign consultant/contractor with the Asea
Brown and Boveri Ltd, Mr. Enrique Salcedo, made a
numbered time (fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar
months, valued at 8,000,000.00, (Eight Million Pounds
Sterling) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got
no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally
we discovered from his contract employers, Asea Brown
and Boveri (the energy giant), that Mr. Salcedo died
from an automobile accident.
On further investigation, I found out that he died
without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his
next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that Mr. Salcedo did not
declare any next of kin or relations in all his
official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in our Bank.
Due to the funds being temporarily unclaimable, the
funds have being moved out of our bank ( as sundry
funds )to an offshore Deposit
Company here in Europe.
From past experiences, I know that no one will ever
come forward to claim the deceased funds. According to
Scottish laws, at the expiration of 5 (five) years,
the funds will be Unclaimable and revert to the
ownership of the Scottish Government if nobody applies
to claim the fund.
In order to avert this negative development, I in
conjunction with a
colleague (the Chief Operating Officer in the bank)
now seek your permission to allow my attorney do a
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP/REASSIGNMENT OF CREDIT of stated
funds from the "deceased" to your name, so that the
funds ( 8 million Pounds) would be released to you as
the new owner (on behalf of me and my colleague).
We are writing you because, as public servants, we
cannot operate a foreign account or have an account
that is more than 20,000:00 Pounds. Consequently, you
will be presented as the owner of the funds in the
Deposit Company so you can be able t o claim them,
after all necessary paperwork has being effected.
For us to commence, I will like you to provide the
following information immediately;
1. Full names
2. Contact address
3. Telephone and fax numbers
Once I receive these information, I will prepare the
necessary documents which will put you in place as the
new owner of the funds. The money will then be
released to your custody by the Deposit Company, for
us to share in the ratio of 70% for us and 30% for
you.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the solicitor and this
will guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction.
If you are interested, please reply via my email
address:mrnicholasthorne@fastermail.com. Upon your response, I shall
then provide you
with more details, and further explanation that will
help you understand the transaction.
No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive,
please we imploy you to observe utmost confidentiality
and rest assured that this transaction would be most
profitable for both of us because we shall require
your assistance to invest our share in your country
(Real estate and any other ideas you may have), this
is why your urgent action and response is of great
essence which will enable us conclude this transaction
in a timely and professional manner.
I await your swift response hoping you accept my
proposal, as time is of equal essence in this project
as well as is confidentiality. Your response should be
to my private email address:mrnicholasthorne@fastermail.com
Thank you and have a nice day.
Respectfully yours,
NICHOLAS THORNE
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