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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: "Dr David Aku." <drdavidaku@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: david_aku72003@myway.com
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 03:09:01 +0100
Subject: re;urgent and confidential.
Dear Sir./Madam,
I Am Dr David Aku, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to
ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department.
We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million
Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our a foreign customer(Herve
Garboudes) who was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the
Nigeria National Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip.
He died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair
Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in
september 2nd 1998.
The plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detail
informaion:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcript
s/
Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither
the family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money.
We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that
if such money remained unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it
would be transferred into the MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed
fund. Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer
this money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont
want this money to go back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed
debt.
Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to
transfer out this money through another foreign beneficiary
outside the country. We have decided to give you 15% of the total
sum. So please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and
fax numbers for effective communication. I will do my best to see that
we conclude this transaction successfully on time.
Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can
explain the details to you to understand everything about this
business. write to this email address: david_aku72003@myway.com
Waiting for your urgent response.
Best Regards.
Dr David Aku.
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