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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: "williamsjude@ommail.com" <williamsjude@ommail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:33:40 -0500
Subject: Regarding Ms Jean Dorothy Allen funds in my bank
Dear friend,
My name is Williams Jude, personal assistant to director
international remittance department union bank of Nigeria
plc.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank
(Ms. Jean Dorothy Allen, of America) who perished in the
plane crash of 31 October 1999 [with Egyptian airline 990]
with other passengers aboard as you can confirm it yourself
through this web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
http://www.cnn.com/us/9911/01/egyptair.03/
since the demise of ms. Jean Dorothy Allen, I personally
have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but
all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim her
funds of USD30m,(thirty million united states dollars) has
been with our bank here for a very long time on this note I
decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin, as no one has come up to put claim as the next of
kin to this funds and the banking ethics here does not allow
such money to stay more than six years, because after six
years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.
In view of this I got your contact through my country's
foreign trade mission after I was convinced in my mind that
your name/company could be used as the next of kin to this
claim. The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as the next of kin to
a foreigner.
I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign
partner in respect of providing an account while 10% will
take of any expenses that might be incurred in the process
of succeeding the transfer and the rest will be for me.
Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement as I
am almost due for retirement.
Upon the receipt of you, I will send you by fax or e-mail a
draft application of claim which you will send to the bank
as the next of kin and the next step to take.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as
the whole required arrangement as been perfected for the
transfer.
Regards,
Williams.
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