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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: "karim wallet" <karimwall@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:07:56 +0000
Subject: PROPOSAL
Dearest,Good day, do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I will introduce myself as MR.KARIM WALLET a staff in the accounts management section of BANK OF AFRICA ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Without missing words, one of our accounts with holding balance of us$15.5 Million has been dormant and has not been operated for the past 5 years.
From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner by name DR.GEORGE W. BRUMLEY an atlanta usa citizen who died in a kenya plane crash, and since then nobody has done anything as regards to claiming of this fund because he has no family members who are aware of the existing fund neither the account lying in this Bank. Also Information from the National Immigration stateed that he was also single on entry Burkina Faso after which the wife came later to meet him.Please, I want you to visit the website below for more information about the Plane Crash: www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlI have secretly discussed and confirm this transaction with some of the bank officials and they told me that the next kin to this fund died alonside with all his family including the origanal next of kin. I have decided to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. I thus propose to treat this transaction with you, and for you to stand as the next of kin of these fund and the fund will be relesed to you after due processes have been followed.
Finally this transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. On your interest, let me hear from you.
Regards, MR.KARIM WALLET.DISCLAIMER:This message contains confidential information and is intended only for specified email adress. If you are not the among specified adress you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.
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