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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: MR MICHAEL COLLINS <michael_4collins@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: michael2_collins@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:55:30 +0200
Subject: URGENT TRANSACTION FROM LONDON.
ttn: the managing director/ceo.
sir,
I am Mr.michael collins, I work with the Barclays Bank of London as an
account officer in the Treasury/Credit Control Unit. I came to know you in
private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this
confidential transaction, which involve the transfer of a huge sum of money
into a foriegn account requiring maximum confidence.
THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSITION/TRANSACTION IS AS FOLLOWS:
we have a foreigner by name Engineer PETER GUGGI, who is a marine engineer by
profession, it was quite unfortunate that he was involved in the bomb blast of this month in london, and a very good customer of our bank barclays bank here in london
and he have a closing balance as at the end
of January 2004, which is worth £5,500,000.00 pounds ( five
million five hundred thousand British pound sterling). I was his personal
account officer and since he deposited this money with us in the year
2002, a single paying or withdrawal was never made by him. We where
instructed by my late client that the money be kept and secured in a security
and finance firm because it was less expensive to keep and secure the
funds in the security. This was done for him according to his
instructions. Surprisingly, for three years since this money was kept in the
security and finance firm nothing has being heard from him, not until I was
informed about his death with evidence when I decided to call to the
number he once gave to me, of which several attempts has been made
earlier but all was in vain. Our bank now expected his Next of Kin to come
forward as a sole beneficiary to his assets with the bank. As his
personal account officer valuable efforts has being made by me for more than
one year to get in touch with any of my late client family or relatives
without any success.
It is because of the percieved impossibility of being able to locate
any of my late client Next of Kin(He had no wife, Children or Relative
that is known to me ).Based on this, I secretly seek advice from a fellow
colleague who has being in banking for about 14 years now about this
issue of my late client , he made me understand that things like this do
happen and at the end of the day the chairman and board of directors of
the bank will declare the funds s ''Unclaimed'' and subsequently divert
it for thier personal use. In order to avert this negetive
development,I now seek your permission to have you stand as the Next of Kin to my
late client, so that the funds will be released and paid into your
account as the beneficiary's Next of Kin
As soon as I recieve an acknowledgement of your acceptance, I will
furnish you with the necessary modalities of the transaction. I assure you
that this transcaction is 100% risk free, When this business is
completed and the funds is already in your account,the money will be shared on
a 50-50 basis
EMAIL:michael2_collins@yahoo.co.uk
Regards.
mr michael collins.
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