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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: "max kraft" <m_kraft900@wanadoo.es> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mkraft900@wanadoo.es
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:53:26 +0100
Subject: Classified-Proposition
Attn:
Dear Friend,
RE: COLLECTION OF FUND (US$72,900,000.00) UNDER SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.
Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for such a big
transaction through an ordinary letter, which makes it suspicious considering
the type of fraud proposals moving around the world today.However, I
was advised to explain this transaction to you on a face-to-face meeting.
I can do this because of the situation in the world today not being
sure of your reaction.
I am Mr. Max Kraft, 63 0ld man, a Consultant and Broker from Gold Coast
in Australia. I was hired by a German Businessman Mr. Wolfgang Rudolph,
to broker an investment deal between him and oil company in Venezuela.
This deal was executed in January, 1997 and matured for termination in
January 2001. On maturity, the German Businessman and the oil firm
decided to terminate the investment in cash to avoid payment of investment
tax, which amounted to several tens of millions of US Dollars to the
American Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
A special arrangement was made between a top German banker working with
Germany bank in New York, the Oil Company and the businessman to
terminate the investment in cash payment under a fictitious name, with an
arrangement to change it later with a power of attorney, which they
prepared and handed over to the banker. I was directly involved, well paid
and mandated to organized and carry out the deal. All the cash was
withdrawn in August 2001 and transported to Europe by direct bank vault
delivery to a private diplomatic storage in Europe for safekeeping pending
the collection.
The real content of the boxes was not declared to the Storage as it was
delivered as personal family treasure and diamonds. The codes for the
storage, secret codes for the opening of the boxes and its keys were all
handed over to me. Mr. Wolfgang Rudolph, the German businessman was
planning to go to Europe by mid November 2001 with me for the collection
when the unexpected happened in Sept 9/11 Attacks on the twin
tower,which claimed his life and that of the top banker. This left me devastated
and confused as I have not yet handed over the deposit details to the
owner and the power of attorney prepared for the change which was signed
was still with the banker in his office which was lost. It was agreed
with the storage that the consignment would be collected on or before 12
months from the date of delivery. Since last December, the diplomatic
storage manager has been calling me to bring or tell the owner to come
over for collection. Since then, I have been finding any reliable
person with the same name to collect these consignments under special and
well negotiated arrangement until I came across your details. All assured
that this transaction has been well organized, 100% safe, legal, risk
free and should be kept very confidential. Please contact me for more
comprehensive details if you think we do this together. My alternate
email address is expecting to hear from you very soon.
Best Regards,
Mr. Max Kraft
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