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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. Jake Williams" <jakewilliams221@gawab.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jakewilliams7@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:49 +0100
Subject: Please get back to me
MR. JAKE E. WILLIAMS
25 Rue Avenue Be Shell
Lome - Togo.
Tel:+228 9062849
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
Dear Friend,
Compliments of the day!, I'm MR. JAKE EGOBIA WILLIAMS, and I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer to Dr. Gerald Welsh (Late), one of our foreign customers. While he banked with us, I oversaw his accounts and other official/financial obligations as my office demanded being his accounts officer. Unfortunately, he died along with his entire family in the plane crash of 31 October, 1999 on board the Egyptian Airline 990 alongside other passengers.
While he was alive, none of his family members was ever known to me other than his immediate nuclear family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.
I cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Having made a very frantic and exhaustive search for any family member that would lay claim to this fund, I decided to take my chance with you.
I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased as I have all documentations including his certified Death Certificate that will facilitate your stand as next of kin to him as he had a closing balanced of (US$27.9M) Twenty Seven Million Nine Hundred United States Dollars only here in one of the Ecowas banks Lome Branch Togo. I also have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any member of deceased family to become beneficiary of this fund.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internal re-adjustments and file your name in all the forms and other vital documents as next of kin which before now was left blank by the deceased upon opening of the account eleven years ago.
Upon your reply, I will advice the way forward. I must assure you that if you are serious and follow my lead religiously, then this funds will be released to you within a seven-working-day period.
You are to have 35% of this fund (US$27.9) for providing an account where this US$27.9 will be transferred into, 5% will be set aside for any expenses that could come up during the transfer processing and 60% will be for me and my partner.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent mail. Regards,
Mr. Jake E. Williams
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