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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: "Anthony Uwa" <anthonyuwa02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: anthonyuwa23@yahoo.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:58:21 +0000
Subject: urgent
Dear Sir,
I am Barrister Anthony Uwa, Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr
Mark cruise a national of your country, who used to work with shell
development company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 1999, my client,his
wife And their three children were involved in a car accident along
Sagamu/Lagos Express Road.unfortunately they All lost their lives in the
event of the accident, Since then I have made several enquiries to your
Embassy to locate any of in my clients extended relatives, this has also
proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family
but to no avail, . I contact you to assist me in receiving the money and
property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits lodged.Particularly, the
Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $9 million dollars.
Conseqently, The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the
account confiscated within the next ten official working days. since i have
been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 3 years now I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are
from the same country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $9
million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.
60% to me and 30% to you,while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your
government may require. I have all necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest
cooperation to enable us see
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Barrister Anthony Uwa,
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