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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: "Paul onuh" <paulonuh@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:48:36 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend
Barrister Paul Onuh and Associates
A.I.B. Plaza, A.I.B.Terrace,
Off Akin Adeshola Street,
Victoria Island
Lagos, Nigeria
Telephone:234-4749379
Private Email:(paul49onuh@myway.com)
ATTENTION:
I am Barrister Paul Onuh a personal attorney to late Engr.Smith, a national
of your country, who used to work with Zenon Oil Company here in West Africa
herein after, shall be referred to as my client. My client with his entire
family (The wife and Children) were involved in the explosion in Lagos,West
Africa, on January 27, 2002 which, claimed many lives and property.
Unfortunately, my client and the family lost their lives in that disaster
that needed not to have happened.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I
contacted you. My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the
money and property left behind by my client prior to his death before they
get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge
deposits were lodged and where the deceased had an account valued at about
US$16.5 Million dollars.
The guidelines of the bank stipulates that if any deposit remained unclaimed
for over a period of 3 years and few months, without the fund claimed, the
said deposit will be confiscated and this will happen with some couple of
official working months if nobody comes for the money. The company had
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over two years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name/surname so that the proceeds of this
account valued at US$16.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you
and me can share the money. 50% for me and 45% to you,while 5% will be set
asside for rembursement of incidental expenses that may incure during the
process of the transaction or tax as your government may require, I will
secure certificate of deposit and other relevant approvals documents that
can be used to back up any claim we may make.All I require is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed legitimately to protect you from any breach of the law.Please
get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.
All future Correspondence should be addressed to my private mailbox :
(paul49onuh@myway.com}
NB: VIEW TWO (2) WEBSITE OF THE BOMB EXPLOSION: -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1786465.stm
Sincerely
Barr Paul Onuh.
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