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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: "Edward Martins" <edward_martins@union-banknig.org>
Reply-To: edward_martins40@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:53:44 +0000
Subject: REQUEST
From: MR EDWARD MARTINS
UNION BANK PLC
Lagos
PRIVATE EMAIL:edward_martins40@yahoo.com
Good Day,
I know that this letter may come to you as a suprise.I got your contact
address online while I was searching for a reliable busines partner.My name
is Mr.Edward Martins the Bill and Exchange(assistant) Manager of UNION BANK
PLC,Balogun branch.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$10.500.000 (TEN
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USA DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to
this our foreign customer who died along with his wife and and children in
auto 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 the next of kin or relation to the
deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the
auto crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and my colleague in the
department now decided to make this business proposals to you and release
the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because we don't want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The banking law
and guide lines here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after
five years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late
customer was a foreigner and a nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 33% of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account.2% will be set
aside for expenses incurred during the business and 65% would be for me and
my colleague, after which we shall visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.To enable the immediate transfer of
this fund to you as we arranged,you will furnished me with a good receving
account detail where the money will be transfered into,your private tel and
fax number for easy communication.
Upon receipt of the above mentioned, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a
text of the application which you shall retype and fax to our Foreign
Operation Department,for easy execution of the transaction.I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free on both
side. As all required arrangement have been made for this transaction.
Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top
secret as you may wish to know that we are Bank officials.
Your prompt response will be highly appreciated through my private email
address:edward_martins40@yahoo.com
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Edward Martins.
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