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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: "Mr. Oscar Williams" <oscarwilliamsng@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:33:47 +0400
Subject: URGENT
Mr. Oscar Williams
Barclay Bank Of Senegal.
Senegal - Dakar
Dear Friend,
Transaction of this magnitude is bound to make one apprehensive so permit me to introduce myself but before I do that while standing on my honor and integrity I am assuring you that this transaction is risk free. My name is Oscar Williams, the head of credit and accounts department of the Barclay Bank Of Senegal.
I am writing you in respect of a foreign customer who has a Domiciliary account in my bank. His name was Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Dubai, 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 account as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only Seven Million United States Dollars (US$7,000,000.00) in his account and the account 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 off shore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you, 70% for me and 30% for 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 personal data, so that I can computerize them to tally with next of kin column in the bank central information system.
Finally I want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how you will send you application across. Then will I give you the contact of the bank.
I also indulge you not to make undo use of the information given to you as it may mar my very bright future.
Trusting to hear from you,
I remain Respectfully yours,
Mr. Oscar Williams.
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