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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: "douglas smith" <ds98@handbag.com>
Reply-To: douglas_smith2@myway.com
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:26:04 -0700
Subject: RE: FROM DOUGLAS
Dear,
It is indeed great putting this proposition across to you, considering the
fact that we have no relationship .I say this because it may embarrass you
just as it has been difficult for me to propose. My name is Mr. Douglas Smith
I work in the credit and accounts department of Union Mercantile Bank of
Nigeria Plc, Lagos, Nigeria.
You see, I have held on to this secret now for nearly 3 years, but now it
has been bothering me hence I have decided to share it with someone, as something
has to be quickly done about it. I am taking you in absolute confidence by
disclosing this to you.
I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domiciliary A/C number
6402356789,whom until his death, I was his accounts officer.
His name is Engineer Joseph Schultzman. He was among those who died in a
plane crash here in Nigeria (in the mambila Hills of Plateau state) about
3 years ago.
Now, since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Joseph Schultzman, who
was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit
records and accounts and since then no body has come up to claim the money
in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer, he had $35million in his
a/c.
It is now almost 3 years and nobody has come up with claims as Next-Of-Kin
to the deposit. I hereby ask for your co-operation in using your name as
the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between you and myself. At this point I am the
only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from
the safe, being his account officer all the deposit details are with me ONLY.
By this doing, what is required of you is to send an application laying claims
of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer.
I will need your full name and address, your company or residential, so that
I can computerize them to tally with next of kin column in the certificate
of deposit.
Finally I want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the
next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and
for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin.
When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be shared
between us.
Trusting to hear from you either by mail via these alternative mailboxes.......................
I await to read from you
I remain
Respectfully yours,
Mr. Douglas Smith
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