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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: =?us-ascii?Q?henry=20haliko?= <h.haliko@seznam.cz>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:01:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?Please=20get=20back=20to=20me?=
Dr. Henry Haliko
CREDIT BANK BENIN (CBB)
Email:h_aliko@myself.com
Good day,
With warm heart i offer my friendship, and my greetings, and i hope
this letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising for you to
receive this proposal from me since you do not know me personally. However,
i am sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which i
propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity.
A) It is practically impossible for me to carry out this business
alone.
B) You live in a foreign land far away from mine. This should normally
not be a requirement, but when you understand the transaction then you
will understand why it is important that you live far away from me.
C) The amount of money involved in this transaction is Sixteen Million
Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$16,400,000.00) which is
too much for a man of modest means like myself to handle in my country.
I believe from my few points above, you can begin to get an idea why i
need your participation. I am writing you in respect of a foreign
customer who has a Domicilliary account in my bank. His name was Engineer
Frank oliver. He was among those who died in a plane crash, Since the
demise of this our customer, Engineer Frank Oliver, who was an oil
merchant and import/exporter, i have kept a close watch of the deposit records
and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this
a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only Sixteen Million
Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$16,400,000.00) in his
account and the account is coded.
It is only an insider that could produce the code of the deposit
particulars. As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce
the needed information other than my very self considering my position in
the bank. Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the
deposit as next of kin, i hereby ask for your to send an application to
the bank as he next of kin to the deceased and get this fund transfered
into your foreign bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you,
10% for expences we will incure 45% for you and 45% for me.
All i need is for you to follow my instructions closely because i am
experienced in inheritance matters here and i am on ground here to advice
you on every step until you receive the.What is required of you is to
send an application to the bank as next of kin to the late Engineer and
i promise you that everything will go smoothly.
I also indulge you not to make undo use of the information given to
you, i need also to trust that you will not tell people or your bank about
this business.You will collect the money first, then I get my share,
then you can tell anybody what you chose thereafter. I shall need your
help to invest in your country therefore, any experience you have in this
area will be beneficial.
Please feel free to ask any question and seek for explanations if
required and upon the receipt of your favourable response.
Yours truly,
Dr. Henry Haliko
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