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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: "jose agu" <joseagu91@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barristerjoseagu1@walla.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:54:01 +0100
Subject: very urgent
ATTN :Sir/Madam
It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as
a
suprise.
This is because we have not met before but i am
inspired to sending you> this
email by the huge fund transfer opportunity that
will be of mutual
benefit to the two of us. However, I am ,JOSE AGU
personal Attorney to the
late Engr.Steve
Moore a
national of Isle of Man in UK, who used to work with
Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) in
Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 1996,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 several Embassies to
locate any of my clients extended relatives, this
has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to
tracehisrelatives
over the Internet to locate any member of his family
but of no avail,
hence
I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money
and property left behind by my client,I can easily
convince the bank
with my
legal practice that you are
the only surviving relation of my client. Otherwise the Estate he left
behind will be confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge
deposits were
\ lodged.Particularly, the Bank where the deceased
had an account valued at
>about $27million U.S dollars(twenty seven million U.S.America
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 overseveral
years now.I seek your consent to present you
the next of kin of the deceased,so that the
proceeds of this account valued at $27million U.Sdollarscan be paid to your
account and then you>and
me can share the money. 55%to
me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or
tax as your
government
may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be
used to 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> legitimate arrangement
breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by my email to enable
usdiscuss further. please get back to me from this
barristerjoseagu1@walla.com
Yours Faithfully,
Barrister JOSE AGU
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