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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: "DR SMITH" <drsmithja002@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: drsmithja003@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:59:38 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
STRATEGY DEPARTMENT
UNITED KINGDOM.
ATTN:
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that
this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it
serious. I am Dr.SMITH J.A, a banker with the
a large bank in UK.
I am the Accounts officer of late Mr. Michael j.Brown
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.htm l and
also in this website, where Michael's company talked about
his death in the Kenya crash. Mr. Michael Brown was from
Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Since the death of Michael, I as his accounts officer in
the bank, 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 reliable and honest person whom will
transact this business with me 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
Michael, before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by my bank. The board of my
bank, has issued a notice that after 2 months from now and
no next of
kin shown up for the claim, the funds will be confiscated
and declared
unserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful
in locating
Michael's relatives for sometime now, 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 15.6 Million pounds can be
released to you.
The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who has
all related
information/documents to the bank account. I am in charge
of this matter in my bank, because I am his accounts
officer. Your
application will be directed to my department for
verification and
approval. Everything is under my control. I shall provide
you all the information and copy of the certificate of
deposit issued to Michael when he deposited the funds. I
shall also involve a good attorney who shall represent you
in all the appropriate offices for the claim. Please,
I also have all necessary
information we need for the claim and once the money is
transferred to you, I shall destroy all the documents used
for the claim and leave no traces. After everything, you
shall have 40% of the total
sum,while 60% for me. All requires is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.
Michaelwas a very good man and it is not wise to allow his
hard earned
wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of my bank.
Further details awaits your response by email. PLEASE,
TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards
Dr SMITH J.A
Banker
FOR SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIAL PURPOSES REPLY ON ;
talk2drsmithja@yahoo.co.nz
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