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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: "Mike Reedman" <almwz1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mikereedman@myway.com
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:58:52 +0000
Subject: Re: Good Day.
Good Day,
I take liberty anchored on strong desire to solicit for your assistance on
this mutual beneficial and risk free transaction with you, which I hope you
give urgent attention. To be precise, I am Mike Reedman the Manager of
Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Exchange/Remittance Department of ALPHA BANK,
LONDON-UNITED KINGDOM. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$45,000,000.00 (Forty Five Million United States Dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our customers, Mike Hall who died along with his wife
in December 2004 tsunami Disaster In Asia with no surviving members of their
entire family named after their death in any documents with the bank. See
attached web link:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4153821.stm)
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
Kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless
somebody applied for it as next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, nobody
has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which
is his wife died as well).
Therefore, upon this discovery I and other two officials in my department
now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my
contacting you. We want you to purportedly present your good self as the
next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that we can prepare
documentations and release the funds (US$45, 000,000.00 Million) into your
account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and again we do not want the funds to go into the Governments account as
“Unclaimed Bill”.
The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned
or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all
money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury
Account. Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred
into Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before November
2005. The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in
occasioned by the fact that you are a foreigner who I believe can help in
this mutual deal.
Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as
follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, we
have agreed to give you twenty five (25%) of the total sum, and 5% has been
set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the
process of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall be for my colleagues
and I. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After
you reply, you will be advised on the next step forward.
I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business
Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in
order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from
you.
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Mike Reedman.
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