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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: "Ching yuen" <mail@chingyuenj.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:00:28 +0000
Subject: Your kind attention...
Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Ching Jin Yuen, and my home address is PONDOK JATI CR-1,
SIDOARJO-61251, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA. I am writing to you to help me on both
humanitarian and mutually benefiting interest grounds. I am relying on your
help; in return, I will compensate you most generously. My story is not
quite unique or new, but I believe this approach will bring a solution to my
family ordeal. Please forgive me for invading your privacy. I specifically
chose free, open societies, which we can only dream of. Because I believe
you are a busy person, please let me briefly outline my agenda, and then, I
will proceed to give you details. I am an orthodox
Christian and a minority ethnic Chinese of Indonesia, and though we as a
people have suffered Official and private persecution for years, but
recently the economic downturn of Indonesia has been blamed on us and we
have become the scapegoats please check the following Web site:
http://members.fortunecity.com/dikigoros/indonesatroc.htm (Atrocities in
Indonesia).
You will find countless articles on the subject, and it is sobering to say
the last in the light of the foregoing, I took precautionary steps years ago
and established a numbered Account in United Kingdom, Funds on current
Deposit £28,375,406.98GBP. As it turned out, it was my wisest and best
decision yet, and the future of my family is now centered on this money.
How? Since the Riots broke out, the ethnic Chinese, particularly the rich
and middle class have been restricted from emigrating to other countries
with their wealth. The Secret Police trail and watch your every move; even
as I write to you, my telephone is bugged and my family and I are virtually
on house arrest. A Visa application by the unwary is an invitation for
trouble and the Secret Police will instantly be at your door and your bank
Account frozen these are the sordid details
and our dear President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonodoes not want the world to
know about! On a
practical side, I have tried both openly and also clandestinely to obtain
visas for myself and my family at the American Embassy, Address: JI. Merdeka
Selatan 4-5, Jakarta 10110, Indonesia, Phone (62-21) 3435-9000; Fax: (62-21)
385-7189, and my efforts proved fruitless; even an application on
humanitarian grounds to the American Ambassador, Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe, was
turned down for want of merit”, an official language meaning that a grant of
visa will be against the interest of the
State of Indonesia! In summary therefore, I am planning to emigrate to
America or Canada or any other Western Country, and I need your help. I
cannot do it from Indonesia.
As a wealthy man I have some means and help, but because of the prying
eyes of the Secret Police, I am greatly handicapped. I have made a lot of
research and I have a plan that will work, with your cooperation i will
require your help to retain immigration Attorney who will prepare the basic
paperwork for me; I will thereafter arrange with a contact Mr. Chin Chun
Chang who resides in Malaysia and works as a Clerk Assistant and he will
help me in processing visas and passports for me and my family from
Malaysia. This contact will, at the appropriate time arrange passage for me
and my family to your residing country. Once in your country of residence, I
will be free to invest my money in any profitable business in your country.
Meanwhile, I have given the bank in UK currently with my funds instructions
to follow my NEXT OF KIN in order to avoid anyone or the Secret Police
forcing me under coercion to wire the funds back to Indonesia or anywhere;
it is my greatest security. If you are willing to assist me you will please
do the following for me: -
(1) You will have to contact the bank in UK with my instructions to make all
necessary arrangement/transactions with them in order to effect my entire
funds £28,375,406.98GBP into your specified bank account as my NEXT OF KIN.
(2) Upon receiving the money of £28,375,406.98GBP into your account, you
will use part of the money to retain an immigration Attorney to advise me
(though, from my researches, my emigration to Canada/America or any Western
Countries is assured because of my SUBSTANTIAL UK HOLDINGS…
(3) You will please also arrange air charter transportation for me and my
family from Malaysia to your country of residence details will follow later.
If you are willing to help me, please reply ONLY by email, and we will
establish our game plan.
However, in response to this email please forward to me the below
information to enable my bank in UK to enable all necessary contact with
you.
i. Your full names
ii. Contact address (Office/Residence)
iii.Telephone/Fax numbers (Office/Residence)
As soon as I receive the above information from you I shall forward to you
immediately the complete details of my Bank in UK with my funds to commence
the processing of transfer to your Bank with my instruction. Because, I made
it known to my Bank in UK that I will provide my NEXT OF KIN in response of
my funds transfer.
Thank you for your cooperation. I am looking forward to hearing from you
soonest. Please, forward your reply to my email address below.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ching J. Yuen
Email address:chingyuenj@yahoo.com.cn
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