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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. William Annan" <williamnnn@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: williamnnn@maktoob.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:28:21 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE MEMO
Greetings to you,
My name is Mr. William Annan, the present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a
transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a
foreigner.
I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last
December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in
Kumasi who passed on, so that was how I became the present Manager and
discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with
total sum of $12,500,000 million that has not been operated on for the
past 4 years. From my investigation, I found out that this account
belongs to one Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great industrialist and a
resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more news about the crash on
visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank
and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring
of the account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the
money as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no
one is aware of the account. I cannot directly take out this money
without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an
assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the Manager of
my bank branch, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.
I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to yous.
There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
law.
If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to
share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied.
Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work
together, so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and
may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent
response. You can as well contact me by fax, +233 27621073 and my phone number is +233208216645.
Regards,
MR. WILLIAM ANNAN.
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