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Fraud email example:
From: alfred_desomnd1@apropo.ro
Date: 17 Aug 2005 15:25:40 -0000
Subject: FROM Alfred Desmond URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF (US$18,000,000.00)
(EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS
Dear Sir/Madam,
We want to transfer to overseas ($18,000.000.00 USD) EIGHTEEN million united states dollars from a
Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this
money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down
either now or in future.
I am MR. ALFRED DESMOND, the Auditor General of ECOBANK COTE D IVORIE LIMITED, during the
course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since
1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not
remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr.Arthur Coleman ,a foreigner, and an Industrialist, who died since 1992 in
the attack of rebellion in the city of bouaké in the nort part of cote divorie and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that Arthur Coleman until his death was the manager of Coleman Coy.(pty). SA. We
will start the first transfer with Ten million dollars(US$10,000,000.00) upon successful transaction without
any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your
account.
The amount involved is (US$18M) Eighteen million u.s. dollars United States Dollars only. I want to first
transfer us$10,000.000 [Ten million united States Dollars] from this money into a safe foreigners account
abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but
can only be approved to a foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c
because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Arthur Coleman is a
foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together. I got your contact address from my
Secretary who operates computer. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you on the next step to take urgently.
Send also your private telephone and fax numbers including the full details of the account to be used for
the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will
bind us together before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the fund will be safe
before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instructions of a
key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.
I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down. With my influence and the position of
the bank official, we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing.
The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no
trace to any place and to build confidence you can come immediately to discuss with me face to face
after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two
days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I
hear from you that you are ready to actand receive this fund in your account.
I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the
conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will
be forexpenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transfering.
I look forward to your earliest reply.alfred_desmond@lycos.co.uk
Yours,
MR. Alfred Desmond.
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