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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: "maggi clark" <maggiclarklotto@primeuk.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:56:35 +0000
Subject: URGENT
FROM:DR.ABIKE STANLEY,
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS,
BANKERS CONSORTIUM
ABUJA,NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
Complements of the season! It is indeed my greatest
pleasure to send you this letter, which I believe,
will go a long way opening a relationship that will be
beneficial to bothn parties especially as we have
never had the oportunity of knowing ourselves prio to
this time.I am the Director of Operations,Internal
Audit, Bankers Consortium , Abuja,Nigeria.
In my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of
$30.5 million(Thirty million Five hundred thousand US
dollars) in an Account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died in November 1997 in a plane
crash.
Ever since we got the information about his death, we
have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim this money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or a
relation to the deceased as in our banking guidelines
but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of
kin(his wife) died with him in the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.
It is upon this discovery that I and other officials
in my department decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you if you
are ready to front as the next of kin to the deceased
as and we don't want this money to go into the Bank
Treasury as unclaimed bill. The Banking rule here
stipulates that if such money remain unclaimed after
five years,such money will be confisticated by the
Bank Treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and as such a Nigerian cannot stand as
the next of kin to claim the money.
We are therefore soliciting for your assistance to
come forward as the next of kin.
We have agreed that after the transaction which will
take a maximum of 14 working days, 25% of this money
will be for you and 65% would be for me and my
colleague while 10% will be for expenses incurred
during the cause of the transaction.
After the money has being transferred to your Account,
I and the two other colleagues involved in this
transaction will proceed immediately to your country
for our own share of the money which we hope to invest
in some lucrative business in your country based on
your advice. I expect you to keep this business
strictly confidential as you may wish to know that we
are still in the service of the bank
.
Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free
on both sides as every arrangement to ensure a swift
transfer of this fund to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded.Contact me on my email
address and I will give you my contact information and
other relevant data reletaing to this business.
I am looking forward to your prompt response.
Please contact me with this email.salimerian@excite.com
Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Dr.ABIKE STANLEY.
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