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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: "Felix Uka" <feliixuka2000@teenmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: felix_uka2001@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 09:33:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Business
From the Desk of: Mr.Felix Uka
{Commercial Banking (South)}
Orient Bank Plc, Nigeria.
E-mail :felix_uka2000@yahoo.com
With all due respect:
Compliments of the season to you Sir. I write to ask for your kind assistance to enable me execute a business project.
Before,I go in full details about this business proposal,I would like to tell you that this business is risk free and for us to accomplish this, we have to maintain oneness of mind .
I am a manager of Orient Bank PLC, hear in Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria. I was newly posted to one of there branches, there I discovered this sum of money belonging to one of our foreign clients who died in a plane crash.Before his death he left the sum of $17,300,000.000[seventeen million, three hundred thousand dollars] in this bank and since then none of his relatives has come as next of kin to our late customer for claim of this fund for over three years now.
As a mater of fact, the law here stipulates that after five years, if no relatives of the late client apply as next of kin, the money will be transfered into the federal government account for Government use.You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ .The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska.
Right now,the money in question is with Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN)as a dormant account,the federal ministry of finance has issued a letter to me as the manager incharge of the bank for one year grace to contact or locate any relatives to our late client to apply for claim of this money on or before the end of this year 2005 or have the money claimed by the federal government of Nigeria as unclaimed bill. As it stands now, what I need from you is to assent to this deal then I will empowe you as the nex-of-kin with needed documents. You will be entitle to 30% of the money , 10% for any expenses incured during the transaction,60% is for me.
Please I will also want you to assure me that as soon as the money is transfered into your account I will get my own share from you.Note in mind that you will not withdraw any money until I meet face to face with you after the transfer has been comfirmed.Please keep this confidential for security reasons.
My alternative email is felix_uka2000@hotmail.com
Thanks.
Mr. Felix Uka.
Manager,
Orient Bank of Nigeria
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