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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: rocksonbaudo@yahoo.co.uk (rockson baudo)
Reply-To: rocksonbaudo@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:24:14 +0300
Subject: COOPERATE IN REALISING THIS
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing after a Haitian friend recommended you on the above subject.
I am a branch manager with Citizens Bank Limited, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, and my junior colleague is Okey Nwankwo who works in the Institutional Banking Group at the same branch. He was managing the accounts of one Nicola Holton. The contract account was opened in 2002 to finance a Comprehensive Healthcare Project by Federal Government. After a year, the account owner died with his wife and only daughter in an auto-crash along Isolo Highway, Lagos. The project was suspended afterwards and later regenerated before its re-award to another contractor in 2004 by Government. The account of the diseased continued, became dormant in my branch. To contact his embassey in Abuja for his relatives to operate back the account or to claim the huge deposits was to no avail.
Later, on behalf of the bank, the diseased's account manager needed my attention on this development; to change the account's name was suggested. This was important so that a benefactor whose nativity could be the same country as the account's owner should be approached. This was aimed at preventing the Government from freezing the huge account's deposits, as done before to our customers whose deposits were so unfortunate. Secondly, this was done because the Government had lost their records of the contract account and, no sooner than that, some Ministry officials began secretly to demand the account's number as well as statements from my office after proposing to share the huge deposits and give only something tiny to me. I refused and did not let them locate anything since then; and for a moment, to arrange this deal with a trustworthy benefactor on behalf of my colleague and myself was decided. The whole money is US$17 million.
Could you discuss with me. If you can, agreement is important. You are to obtain a foreign account of a bank in your country for the transfer of the whole money that you should keep for us. If you can, please, be honest and send your direct phone number, your full names and write back on my email immediately.
Regards.
ROCKSON BAUDO M.,
Branch Manager
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