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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: "Michael Webber" <michael_webber47@msn.com>
Reply-To: mcwebber007@yahoo.ie
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:05:50 +0000
Subject: Please get back to me as soonest.
Mr.Michael Webber
Accounts Dept.
Allied Irish Bank
Bankcentre,P.O.Box 452,
Ballsbridge,
Dublin 4, Ireland.
Dear Friend,
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money
from a deceased's account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day.
We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this claims as we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in a car crash.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to
lay claims to this money as the heir. My associate and I found you to be
from the same country and with the same surname as our client and we were in
effect compelled to contact you immediately.
We cannot release the funds 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, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next-of-kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$20,000,000.00) to be released
in your favour as the beneficiary's next-of-kin.
It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to locate any of deceased's beneficiaries. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Your Full name and physical address.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.
3. Information regarding your date of birth.
These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the
transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 4 Million Dollars on
final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share
stays with you while we come over to collect the rest from you immediately
it hits your nominated account for private investment.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail through my
confidential email address only: mcwebber007@yahoo.ie
Sincerely yours,
Michael Webber.
Credit Officer,
AIB Dublin.Ireland.
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