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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: "Bahr Koch" <barrister_bahrkoch@kochchambers.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:35:30 +0000
Subject: Dear friend, Act as Next of kin to my Late client pls.
FROM:BARRISTER BAHR KOCH,
DON BAHR KOCH CHAMBERS,
NO 1 APARTMENT 3 V/ISLAND
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
Attn: Dear friend, Act as Next of kin to my Late client pls.
I am Barrister Bahr Koch , a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to
late Mr. Robert Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International,who
unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan,Ivory
Coast, January 30 2000. You will read more stories about the crash on
visiting this
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html and also in
this website, where Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya
crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife there.Mr.
Chapman Hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Since the death of Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have made several
enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. I came
across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for
Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this
project.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left
behind in a fixed deposit account by Robert, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by Eco Bank Plc where my client operates an account
worth $USD12.5 Million Dollars. The board of Eco Bank Plc has issued me a
notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the
claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared
unserviceable.
Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Robert's relatives
for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as
the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner,so that the
proceed of this deposit valued at $USD12.5 Million Dollars can be released
to you for our disbursments.
I and my team have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum,Upon successful
remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside to cover
all expenses incurred both local and international, during the course of
this transfer,while 70% will be for me and my team.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business
successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.
Robert was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard
earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of Eco Bank Plc.Further
details awaits your response by email. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP
SECRET.Do not hesitate to include your private phone and fax number, when
replying this proposal,you can also email me on this alternative email
address: bahrkoch@v3mail.com
yours faithfully,
Barrister Bahr Koch.
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