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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: "Ibrahim Bello" <ibra_b2005_3@msn.com>
Reply-To: ibra_b2005@yahoo.ie
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:43:47 +0000
Subject: My Regards To Your Family
FROM THE DESK OF:
IBRAHIM BELLO
HEAD TREASURY DEPARTMENT
EcoBANK OF NIGERIA – PLC.
EcoBANK HEADQUARTER
NIGERIA.
ATTN:Sir/Madam
I am IBRAHIM BELLO, the head of Treasury Departme with The EcoBank of
Nigeria Plc. (EcoBank Headquarters)EcoHouse, 40 Marina Street, Lagos
Nigeria. It is with belief and trust that I send you this obvious and
sensitive business proposal to enable me and my colleagues remit the sum of
USD$20.5 Million, Twenty Million, Five hundred Thousand United States
Dollars(Only) into your account.
This amount belongs to ENGR.WolfGang Berger from Germany account number
0130648335800 an expatriate with,(STRABAG NIGERIA PLC.) and has been
operating it since the past 14 years (fourteen years)until November 7th,1996
when he died as a result of motor Accident, River State to Lagos at the
Ejiri River near Lagos where the incident happened. Note, immediately I,
receive your response to this mail, I will then send to you the: TEXT OF
APPLICATION FORM: which you will send to the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EcoBANK
{NIG} PLC, as the NEXT OF KIN our late customer Engr.WolfGang Berger for
them to approve this fund to you. Note also that I will be assisting you by
given you every information regarding on how to claim this fund, because I
would not like them to know about my involvement in this transaction.
Meanwhile, the total sum in the account is now USD$24Million (Twenty Four
Million United States DollarsOnly). USD$24 Million was the total sum,
USD$20.5Million amount to be withdrawn, USD$3.5 Million Banks commission
interest, Now we have financially agreed,my Colleagues and I to arrange with
you a as a reliable foreign partner who will assist us by claiming to be the
next of kin to the account owner who died in motor accident. We would carry
out the entire groundwork. We are
contacting you because by law, we are pre-clouded from operating any foreign
bank account while in service. If it interests you to assist, please feel
free to contact me through the above email addresses for the attention of
IBRAHIM BELLO
METHOD/MODE OF SHARING: -
A. Total sum with account = USD$24 Million
B.Amount to be withdrawn = USD$20.5 Million
C.Myself and my colleagues = USD$12 Million
D.Account holder (That’s you)= USD$7Million
E.Incidential expenses = USD$1.5 Million
F.Banks commission interest = USD$3.5 Million.
Finally, I would highly appreciate it if you could make up your mind for us
to do the business, which will be of great mutual benefit to both of
us.Thanking you for you kind co-operation and remain blessed as we look
forward to hearing from you soonest.
My sincere regard to you.
Best regards,
IBRAHIM BELLO
Head of Treasury
Dept. EcoBank of Nigeria Plc.
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