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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: "Gilbert Kalu" <harrison_doyle02@msn.com>
Reply-To: gilbert_kalu@sify.com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:24:19 +0000
Subject: NICE KNOWING YOU
Dear Friend,
My name is Mr.Gilbert Kalu, personal assistant to director international
remittance department.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank (William Barnes, of
America) who perished in the plane crash of 31 October 1999[with Egyptian
airline 990] with other passengers aboard.
Sir, since the demise of William Barnes, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of US$30 m, [thirty million united states dollars]
has been with our bank here for a very long time.
On this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin, as no one has come up to put claim as the next of kin to this funds
and the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than five
years, because after five years the money will be called back to the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.
In view of this I got your contact through my country's foreign trade
mission after I was convinced in my mind that your name/company could be
used as the next of kin to this claim. The request of the foreigner as a
next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was
a foreigner and Nigerian cannot stand as the next of kin to a foreigner.
I agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in
respect of providing an account while 5% will take of any expenses that
might be incurred in the process of succeeding the transfer and the rest
will be for me. Thereafter i will visit your country for disbursement as i
am almost due for retirement.
Upon the receipt of your acceptance, i will send you by fax or e-mail a
draft application of claim which you will send to the bank as the next of
kin and the next step to take.
i will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and
that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement has
been perfected for the transfer.
Your faithfully
Mr.Gilbert Kalu
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