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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: "JEREMIAH HOLMES HOWARD" <jhholmescan@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:16:21 -0700
Subject: RE:SEEKING YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO WORK WITH ME.
BARCLAY BANK IN LONDON
POSTS 4,721,
DISTRICT OF NOTTING
BRISTOL ENGLAND.
http://www.internationalbanking.barclays.com.
a branch of Barclays Bank in the London district of Notting.
Bristol, England.
Dear Friend,
RE:SEEKING YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO WORK WITH ME.
Please do not take this for a junk letter.
Its might surprise you because we have not meet neither in person nor by
correspondence,but I believe that it takes just one day to meet or know
someone either physically or through correspondence made.
I got your email contact through my personal search, you were revealed as
being quite astute in private Entrepreneurship, one has no doubt in your
ability to handle a financial business transaction.
I am a member of staff of barclays bank here in the United Kingdom. I am
writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense
benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 12.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Twelve million five hundred thousand British Pounds)
acuminated shares in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
Late Mr.Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on
visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot
release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't
want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as a partner,
while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your
country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above
once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is
our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free to the conclusion.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail
whether or not
you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one
about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you
mention this to someone else.
I hope you can be trusted in this regard.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your response.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
MR JEREMIAH HOLMES HOWARD.
Head Audit and Accounts Depts,
BB.UK.
TEL:447851296491
Email:jhholmescan@hotmail.com
Email:jhholmeca@yahoo.co.uk
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The content of this document is classified as Confidential and Proprietary
Information. This message is intended for the recipient identified above.
The content of this message is strictly confidential and exempt from
disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error,
please delete the message and notify me immed iately.Signed.BB.UK
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