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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: "Kenneth Chukwu" <kennethchukwu07@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:39:20 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Kenneth Chukwu, Credit officer at the Foreign Remittance Department
of the Diamond Bank Plc. I am writing this letter to ask for your support
and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. I
discovered an abandoned sum of $3,500,000.00 (Three million Five Hundred
United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to Late Michael
Ginger who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in
November 1999 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put up claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release
the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever
appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I have agreed to make
business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir
of the fund since no one came for it otherwise the fund will be returned to
the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
I have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 35% for you
as foreign partner, 60% for me and 5 % for the settlement of all local and
foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my family will
come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 60% we intend to
import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the
fund. To commence this transaction, I require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone
number, fax number full name and current mailing address to enable us file
letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals
before the transfer can be made.
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature.
I look forward to receiving your prompt response to my personal email
address thus: k_chukwu1960@yahoo.com
Kenneth Chukwu
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