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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: "MR. joseph kofi" <joseph_kofi1111@YAHOO.COM> (may be fake)
Reply-To: JACK_KOFI2005@YAHOO.COM
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:30:54 +0000
Subject: URGENT
MR. joseph kofi
BARCLAYS BANK OF GHANA PLC
TEL: 00233-244-716533.
E-MAIL: joseph_de2003.co.uk
It is my humble pleasure to send you this mail,
irrespective of the fact that I don't know you in
person. However, I got your esteemed particulars while
in search of a reliable partner through your country's
business directories on the internet.
I am Mr. joseph kofi of Bills and Exchange at the
Foreign Operations Department of the Barclays Bank Of
Ghana Plc. I am writing you to solicit for your
support and co-operation to carry out this Business
opportunity in my Department. I discovered an
abandoned sum of US$47.5m (Fourty-Seven Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) in an
account which belongs to one of our foreign customers
who died along with his family in one of the hijacked
airlines during the Terrorist Attack on the World
Trade Center Building on Sept. 11th 2001. Since this
unfortunate incident, advertisements has been placed
for the Next-of-Kin or any close relation/family
member to come forward to claim this money, but to
date nobody has come to apply for the claim and we
cannot release the money unless someone applies for it
as the Next-of-Kin, family member or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our Banking guidelines.
To this end, I have now decided to do business with
you so that this fund will be released to you as
Next-of-Kin or relative to the deceased for subsequent
disbursement between us, since nobody is coming forth
for it and I don't want this money to go into the
bank's treasury as unclaimed funds. Our Banking law
and guidelines stipulates that if such funds are
unclaimed for a period of 30 months (Two year and a
half years), it would be transferred into the Bank's
Treasury as unclaimed funds. The need for a foreigner
as Next-of-Kin in this transaction is occasioned by
the fact that the late customer was a foreigner. I
have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as
my foreign partner, while 65% is for me and 5% is set
aside for contingencies/expenses incurred during the
process of this transaction (but this percentage
sharing is still negotiable). Thereafter, I will visit
your country for disbursement according to the agreed
percentage. Therefore, to enable the immediate
transfer of the said funds to you as indicated, you
must apply to the Bank as a relation or Next-of-Kin of
the deceased indicating your bank details information
wherein the fund will be transferred and remitted
into. Upon the receipt of your positive response by
email, I will send to you, the text of the Application
letter and all the necessary information's that might
be needed from you for immediate Application of Claim.
Do expedite urgent actions in replying. Your reply
should be sent my private e-mail address:
joseph_de2003.co.uk or give me a call on my private
telephone no.:00233-244-716533 immediately you receive
this message for further enlightenment.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. joseph kofi.
Barclays Bank of Ghana.
N.B.: Your reply should be sent to my private email
address:joseph_de2003.co.uk And also include your
private fax number and telephone number (Mobile phone
number if available) to facilitate an easier and
faster communication. Th
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