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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: "usman gambo" <usmangambo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: usmangambo@inbox.com
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:34:25 +0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP
FROM THE DESK OF,DR USMAN GAMBO, UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, BILLS & FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. ATTENTION: I am DR USMAN GAMBO of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance Department of Union Bank of Nig. Plc. I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer(Herve Garboudes) who was a petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip. He died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detailinformaion: http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/ http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/ http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcript Since we got the information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim this money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money. We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our banking regulation indicate that if such money remain unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it would be transferred into the Union Bank of Nig Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer this money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into the bank treasury. We have put in place all mechinaries to urgently arrange to transfer out this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country. And you will be duelly compensated with 25% of the total sum. So please, as a matter of urgency if this proposal suits you send to me your telephone and fax numbers for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this transaction successfully on time. Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail to(email):usmangambo@inbox.com so that I can explain the details to you to understand everything about this business transaction. Waiting for your urgent response. 1. Your full Name and address 2. The name of your bank where you want the fund to be transfered into, Account beneficiary 3. Your private Telephone and fax numbers Awaiting your urgent reply via my email:usmangambo@inbox.com Best Regards. DR USMAN GAMBO
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