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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: john_belo2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:29:20 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=20NEEDED?=
ATTENTION.
My name is Mr. John Belo, I work in the credit and accounts department of
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc
Lagos, Nigeria.
Email ;john_belo77@hotmail.com
I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domicilliary A/C number
6402356789. His name is Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He was among 111 people
who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africaines
Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the december 26,2003. You
will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website: www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
he was amonsgt the occupants of the plane lost their lives. Since then I
have made several enquiries to locate any of my customer's extended relatives
and this has also proved unsuccessful.
Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Joseph Schultzman, who
was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit
records and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in
this a/c as next of kin to Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He had only $38.5mllion
in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce
the code or password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now, there
is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than
my very self considering my position in the bank.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the
only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from
the safe .
By this doing, what is required of you is to send an application laying
claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will need your
full name and address, company or residential, so that I can computerize
them to tally with next of kin column in the certificate of deposit.
Finally I want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the
next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin. Contact
me on this email address(john_belo77@hotmail.com) then we shall discuss
on how the money will be split between us.
Trusting to hear from you.
I remain respectfully yours,
Mr John Belo.
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