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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: "william smith" <william_smith1980@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:44:25 +0000
Subject: Please get back to me
Dearest,
I am Mr. William Smith, a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing
this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this
business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of$12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who is from your country, his name is Mr. Paul Philip,
who died along with his entire family a wife and two children in November
1999 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir,because we 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.Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative
has everappeared to claim the said fund.It is in our banking guideline that
if none of the relatives come up to claim this fund after 6years of the
death of the late customer,the fund will be regarded as an unclaimed bill
and will be transferred to the bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to
make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since you bear thesame surname with him and no one came for
it or discovered he maintained account with our bank,otherwise the fund will
be returned to
the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;30 % for you
as foreign partner,65 % for us the officials in my department and 5 % for
the settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us and you
during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65% we intend
to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the
fund.
To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail with the following information, the Requested
Information is to ensure that no mistake or error is
made and it should be forwarded in the manner stated below:
Your Full Name: ___________________________
Your Complete Address:______________________
Name of City of Residence: ____________________
Date of Birth (Day/Month/Year):________________
Direct Telephone Number: ____________________
Mobile Number:___________________________
Fax Number:______________________________
Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you and give you the
mordalities for the bank to approve you as the next of kin.
I would like you to employ traspiracy and honesty in this regards because
aiding and abeting will only keep your payment pending so i will like you to
confirm the following to aviod any mistake or wrong transfer.
Note also, this transaction must be kept because of its nature.I look
forward to receiving your prompt response.Please get back to me at my
private email: william_smith1984@yahoo.co.uk.
Treat as utmost urgency
Best Regards
William Smith
Please get back to me at my private email: william_smith1984@yahoo.co.uk
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