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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: "Kenneth Nnaman" <kenneth_nnamani02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kenneth_nnamani02@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:03:34 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY
Dear sir/ Madam
I am Mr KENNETH NNAMANI,
An accountant ( grade b ) working with standard trust bank. 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
uS$20.5 (TWENTY million, five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only)
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family of a wife and two children in April 2001 in a Plane
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 ever
appeared to claim the said fund. 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 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 to
compensate you with the sum of $5 million dollars.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country and mind our share. To commence this transaction,
we require you to immediately INDICATE YOUR INTEREST by a return e-mail.
The INDICATION of your interest is very important as to enable us file
letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals
before the transfer can be made. Note also, this transaction must be kept
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. I look forward to receiving
your prompt response.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. KENNETH NNAMANI,
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