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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: patrick_zirest@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:46:17 +0200
Subject: SOLICITING FOR 100% RISK FREE BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
THE DIRECTOR,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPT.
NED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA,
TELEPHONE: 27-73 155 2845
FAX: 27-84 307 4420
ATTN: PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ MANAGING DIRECTOR
SOLICITING FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
I wish to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free
transaction with you, which I hope you will give urgent attention. To be precise,
I am DR PATRICK ZIREST, the Drector of AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT of NED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$30 Million in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless somebody applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which is Son died as well). Therefore, upon this discovery I hence my contacting you. I want you to present your good self as the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that we obtain the necessary documentation and release the funds (US$8.000 000 (Eight Million United States Dollars) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and again I do not want the funds to go into the Governments account as “Unclaimed Bill”. The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed
and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury Account Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before end of September 2005.
The reason for you to present yourself as the next of kin is because the deceased customer was a foreigner. As soon as you have recieve the said fund into your nominated foreign account. i will give you 30% of the total fund, 65% will come to me and i have set asid 5% of the total money to pay back all expenses we might incur in the course of this trasfer. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After you reply, you will be advised on the next step forward.
I quite believe that you will protect my interest by keeping this business Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Trusting to hear from you on the above telephone and Fax numbers or e-mail address as I count on your earliest response. I also wish to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. You have nothing to worry about. All you have to do is to follow my intructions and i will use my position here in the bank to effect the change of kinship so that the fund will be transfered to your foreign nominated account.
Yours truly,
Dr. Patrick Zirest
(Dir. Auditing/Accounting Dept. Ned Bank of South Africa)
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