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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: FEMI JOHNSON <femijohnsonemie@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:40:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Dear Friend Trusting to hearing from you immediately
FROM THE DESK OF MR JOHNSON EMI.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS MANAGER,
MERCHANT BANK OF AFRICA (MBA)
HEADQUARTERS,
214, TINUBU SQUARE-LAGOS
EMAIL: femijohnsonemi@mail2consultant.com
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of MERCHANT BANK OF AFRICA (M.B.A) here in Nigeria. In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$17M dollars (Seventeen Million
US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreigncustomer (MR
ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany)who worked with Shell
Development Nigeria and died while on holiday in Germany with his entire family
in July 2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.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 cannot release it
unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died longside
with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transferred into the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect
for the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me. Thereafter, I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated. To enable the immediatetransfer of this fund to you arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You
should contactme immediately you receive this letter.
REPLY STRICTLY TO: femijohnson@mailbg.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
MR FEMI JOHNSON EMI.
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