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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: "Derran Morgan" <derranmorgan@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:19:28 -0500
Subject: hello
Dear Friend and Partner,
I would like to begin by way of introduction. My name is Derran Morgan. I am an account officer with the finance company in Toronto, Canada.
The purpose of this letter is to solicit your assistance in a matter of utmost financial interest, which I believe, would be of immense benefit to us upon completion. The said financial interest which is valued at usd18.5Million a lottery winning pay settlement entered into between Mr. Eden Selcuk under and the financial company (my employer), Mr. Eden Selcuk was scheduled to claim the balance of his entitlement in the amount mentioned above since 1997.
Since then, several attempts have been made without success to contact him or any his close relatives in whose favor the cash value of his entitlement can be paid.
I am quite aware that you may feel completely taken aback and unsure about what my intentions may be. Honestly, I must confess that my colleague and I have carefully monitored this account for eight months now. And now that he still not comes forward to claim his entitlements, my colleague and I have decided to work together to get this achieved for our benefit. Since we are in the accounts department and familiar with the procedures of filing and claiming entitlements, we are very confident that with your cooperation, the entitlements can be ours for good.
Please we urge you to keep this matter very confidential as we still currently employed by the finance company. I want to assure you that my colleague and I are in position to make payment of this entitlement possible, provided you are ready to meet with us, and give us a strong guarantee that our share will be well secured, and that you will not take undue advantage of our position and trust since the cash value of the entitlements will be paid to a bank account directly under your control.
Be rest assured that you have nothing to worry and there will be no subject of inquiry since the handling of the claim will be done directly in Canada on your behalf. I do hope that this proposal is acceptable to you. Please acknowledge receipt of this letter so that I can provide you with more detailed information/Clarification about the claim and how we intend to make this beneficial to everyone involved. I can be reached through my personal email; dmorgan@writeme.com
Please, this is not a case of money laundering of illicit funds,
Sincerely,
Derran Morgan
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