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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: "Williams Parker" <williamsparker231@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrwilliamsparker@compaqnet.fr
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:13:10 +0100
Subject: Possible Mail Parker"s Office
From The Desk Of Mr.Williams Parker
United Kingdom
Email:mrwilliamsparker@compaqnet.fr
Dear Friend,
My name is Williams Parker, I am a senior banker in a
bank here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting You for a business
transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that
a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the
success of this transaction would be provided, and all will be well at the
end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of
thistransaction.
The deceased person who died Neal Walker died in an air crash along with his
wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers on board was an American Oil
consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can
confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD
NEWS.BSITE.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.
stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims
for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident
himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). 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.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to
make you the beneficiary to the funds #6,100 000 00 GBP (Six million, one
hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which will be released in
your favor as the next of kin. Because after six years the money will be
called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the money
shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note I decided to
seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this
funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst
themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the
probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual Business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information
if you are interested.
1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone and fax Number.
3. your occupation.
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be
compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final conclusion of this
project for your assistance, the balance 65% shall be for me ,because I
intend to retire
after the conclusion of this transaction . If this proposal is
acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately to my
private email address mrwilliamsparker@compaqnet.fr Do not take undue
advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent
mail.
Best Regards,
Mr.Williams Parker
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