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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: "Victor Ansah" <vic_ansah03@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:23:45 +0000
Subject: From Victor Ansah
>From Victor Ansah
TEL: +233243 859349
Greetings to you,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness. This letter must come
to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet
and become great friends and business partners.
My name is Victor Ansah, the present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana.
I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a
transaction that will benefit both of us, asyour assistance is required as a
foreigner. I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but
last December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in
Kumasi who passed on, so that was how I became the present Manager and
discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered
an account with total sum of $12,500,000 million that has not been operated
on for the past 4 years. From my investigation, I found out that this
account belongs to one Late Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great
industrialist and a resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost his life
along with his entire famillies in the plane crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE
[Flight AF4590 ] which crashed on 25TH JULY, 2000. You shall read more news
about the crash on visiting this site, which I got during my investigation;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and
no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the
account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as
next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, meaning that no one is aware
of the account. I cannot directly take out this money without the help of a
foreigner and that is why
I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the funds and share it with
me. As the Manager of my bank branch, I have the power to influence the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of
kin to the account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to
you. There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.
If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share
the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact me
as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together, so we
can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.
I wait your urgent response
.My phone number is +233243 859349
Regards,
Victor Ansah.
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