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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: "Gregory Albert" <privacy_gregoryalbert@msn.com>
Reply-To: privacy_gregoryalbert@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:39:56 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION.....
MR Gregory Albert
Royal Bank of Scotland
42 st Andrew square
Edinburgh
EH2 2YE, United Kingdom
Attn: CEO/PRESIDENT
I am MR Gregory Albert, the Assistant Managing Director, International
Personal Banking of The Royal Bank of Scotland. I am writing following an
opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my Bank we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m.usd in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American
who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot
release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money would be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me and my colleague. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail whether or not you are
willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not interested, I
sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about it.
I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you mention this to
someone else. I hope you can be trusted in this regard.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when
I do receive your response.
Please in your response include the following information. (1) Your full
name and address (2) Your telephone number and fax number (3) Your business
name.
Best regards
MR Gregory Albert
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