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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: "DR JOHN BLAISE." <drjohnblaise1@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: johnblaise5@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:05:16 +0100
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF JOHN BLAISE
FROM THE DESK OF JOHN BLAISE
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
UNITED BANK OF AFRICA
STATE-NIGERIA,
Dear SIR/MADAM.
I am the bill and exchange manager at UNITED BANK OF AFRICA(U.B.A) foreign
remittance department . There is a business I would want you to champion
for me. In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $25.5MUSD dollars
.In an account That belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in november 2002 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in ourbanking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this businness
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill.
The Banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after four years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury
as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incured during the business and 60 % would be for me.Thereafter I will visit
your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in
the money will be remitted . Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the
application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements
have been made for the transfer.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
DR JOHN BLAISE.
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