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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: "james khumalo" <j_khumalo@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:10:58 +0100
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
MR JAMES KHUMALO.
FIRST RAND BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
16-1 MIDRAND AVENUE
JOHANNESBURG
PHONE 27 73 773 0162
FAX . 27 11 507 5811
CONTACT ME THROUGH THIS EMAIL
j_khza@yahoo.co.in
Dear SIR/MADAM.
I am MR JAMES KHUMALO. a manager of bills/exchange at the foreign
remittance department of FIRST RAND BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of $44,700,000.00 (Forty Four
Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account
that belonged to one Late Mr Andrew Phillips an American, who died along
with his entire family, on November 1999, in a ghastly plane crash.
Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his
next-of-kin to come over and file a claim as next of kin over his money
because we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial business relationship with you,hence by contacting
you.
We want you to present yourself as the next of kin to Late Mr Andrew
Phillips, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.Moreover, we
do not want the money to go into the government account as unclaimed
bills.The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
any account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed
and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this
financial quarter of 2005, when nobody come forward to lay claims. The
reason for requesting your assistance, is occasioned by, the fact that the
deceased (Late Mr Andrew Phillips) was a foreigner,and we have access to his
detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present yourself as
thenext of kin to Late Mr Andrew Phillips.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total
sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in
the course of this transaction.
Therefore,you are expected to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this business.
After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps
to take. I expect your urgent response and I shall contact you for further
discussion on this matter,to enable us conclude this transaction urgently
without any delay or hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons considering my official position in Bank of South Africa.
Personal Regards,
MR JAMES KHUMALO.
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