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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: DRJAMES LINK <dr_jlink@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:07:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET
Dr.JAMES. L.IBEH
THE BANK MANAGER
AFRI BANK PLC
LAGOS BRANCH.
"NOTE: PLEASE REPLY TO ME ONLY THROUGH THIS MY YAHOO
EMAIL ADDRESS (dr_jlink@yahoo.co.uk)FOR EASY
ACCESSING MY MAILS AND
FOR SECURITY REASONS."
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you
that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to
treat it serious. I am Dr.JAMES. L.IBEH the bank
manager of AFRI BANK PLC NIGERIA. So i am the bank
manager to late Mr. Robert Chapman,the African Area
Director of SIL International/who unfortunately died
in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan,
Ivory Coast, January 30 2000. You will read more
stories about the crash on visiting this,
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.htmland
also in this website, where Chapman's company talked
about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall as well
find the
pictures of Chapman and his wife there. Mr. Chapman
was from Hamilton, Ontario canada.And was a foreign
contractor here in Nigeria before he died.Since the
death of chapman, I as the
bank manager of the bank and my officials, have made
several enquiries to locate his only surviving
relation, without any success. I came across your name
and contact, on the course of my personal searching
for Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you
for this project.I am contacting you to assist in
repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a
fixed deposit account by Robert, before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank
The board of my bank, has issued a notice that
after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up
for the claim, the funds will be confiscated and
declared unserviceable. Since I and my team have been
unsuccessful in locating Robert's relatives for
sometime now, I seek your consent to present you as
the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a
foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued
at $USD24.5 Million Dollars can be released to you.The
bank will release the funds to any foreigner who has
all related information/documents to the bank account.
And all these are under my control.I shall provide you
all the information and
copy of the certificate of deposit issued to Robert
when he deposited the funds.I shall also involve a good
attorney who shall represent you in all the
appropriate offices for the claim.
Please,do not fail to visit the website above just
to proof to you that my proposal is genuine. I also
haveall necessary information we need for the claim
and once the money is transferred to you, I shall
destroy all the documents used for the claim and leave
no traces. After every thing, you shall have 40% of
the total sum,while 60% for me.
All requires is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this business
successful. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.
Robert was a very good manand it is not wise to allow his hard earned wealth tobe stolen by the greedy directors of my bank.
Furtherdetails awaits your response by email. PLEASE,TREAT
THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
BEST REGARDS
(Dr.JAMES .L.IBEH).
NOTE: PLEASE REPLY TO ME ONLY THROUGH THIS MY YAHOO
EMAIL ADDRESS (dr_jlink@yahoo.co.uk) FOR EASY
ACCESSING MY MAILS AND FOR SECURITY REASONS."
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