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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: "Reedian Reedian" <reedian2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:04:56 +0000
Subject: Please reply soon.
From: Mr.Reed Ian
Tel: 234-802-896-7604
E-mail:reedian2005@pochta.ru
Dear Sir/madam,
I am sorry for the inconvinence this email will give you but will appreciate
if you can make out time to go through my message.I am Mr Reed Ian,a Briton,
a banker and auditor by profession,I have been working in this part of the
world as stated above for several years,I am also the personal banking
officer to a national of your country, who was formally a director with Kobe
Steel Corporation company,a Japaneese company that constructed the
Liquidified Natural Gas Company in Eleme - River state Nigeria. My
client,his wife and two children were involved in a motor accident along
Sagbama express road Port Harcourt Rivers State Nigeria and unfornately the
family died in the accident. Prior to his death, my client deposited $5.5
million(Five million ,five hundred thousand united states dollars) with my
bank in his domicilary account.
Ever since his death with his family and up till this time of writing, no
next-of-kin or Relation of his has come forward to claim his money with us
since that time. No other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that the account is a secret account because we have
signed a non-disclosure agreement with the bank at that time and his company
was not aware of the deposited fund. I am revealing this to you with believe
that you will not let me down in this business.
The request for you as beneficiary in this business is occasioned by the
fact that the customer/depositor was a foreigner and not from Nigeria as I
cannot stand as next of kin to him, Hence, I plead for your assistance with
the intention of getting this unclaimed money amounting to $5.5
million(Five million, five hundred thousand united states dollars)
transferred into your company/private bank account that you will present. I
will not contact any other company or person until I am convinced that you
are not interested in this proposal.
We can get the fund from my bank if you are ready to work with me without
any hitches, I will use your name to get the probate documents at the
federal high court presenting you as the next of kin to the late customer
since make every necessary arrangement to get his death certificate with
the help of an attorney acreditted to my bank. I believe this is a priviaged
information which I expect you to keep confidential because of my
proffession. The buisness will not take us time since all we need is to get
the probate documents from the court which I will send to you to enable you
fax or send them back to my bank to inform them that you are the next of
kin to my client and beneficiary of the deposit. Other clearance papers will
also be processed to exonorate the funds from illicit proceeds.
I am ready to give you 50% of the total sum for your co-operation.If you are
interested, send me your complete mailing address as I will need it for the
probate.
Be informed that we are aware of the way email proposals of this type are
being sent from this part of africa and as regards that,you please
treat this with
utmost attention knowing fully well that you cannot and will not be
compelled to assist us if you are not disposed to.
I will also need your direct tel/fax numbers as I will like a faster
communcation medium.Kindly reply through my private email
address:reedian2005@pochta.ru
Yours truly,
Mr.Reed Ian.
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