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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: "FRANK ELUE" <frankelue02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: frankelue02@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:21:36 -0800
Subject: An Offer
Barrister Frank Elue,
Greenhills Chambers ,
Plot 225 Queens Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos.
Dear Friend,
I am Barrister Frank Elue of Greenhills Chambers and Associate. I am the
financial lawyer to the late Mr Martins Max from Stuttgart, Germany. Martins
Max was an oil merchant with estment in the leading oil in Africa. He
invested in lifting oil from Niger delta in Nigeria to other countries where
he sales it. He was the highest shareholder in Shell petroleum Bp in 1994.
Martins Max met his untimely death via plane crash in the 2002. I was
contacted as his lawyer by the board of director, GLOBAL LINKS SECURITIES
LTD to look for the relative of late Mr. Martins Max to enable them transfer
the accumulated share dividend of his investment with the GLOBAL LINKS
SECURITIES LTD. It is about two years now. I made some research about the
relatives of Mr Martins Max and discorvered through some DNA reports that
some other two passengers in the same plane happend to be his wife and only
daughter Cynthia Martins Max who also died along with him in the crash.
I am contacting you so that both of us can reach an agreement to enable you
act as his next of kin and claim the fund of course they will believe me
because I am his financial lawyer untill his death and I have all his
business documents with me.I would have use someone from here for the
purpose but the fact that late Martins Max is a white man made it impossible
for me to present a black man as his next of kin which of course, the GLOBAL
LINKS SECURITIES LTD will not honour.
All the document will be validated in your name and shall be drafted by me
to include your name in an application which be forwarded to the GLOBAL
LINKS SECURITIES LTD for the claims. The money is just USD18.Million
dollars. I will personally monitor the progress of the transaction as your
lawyer. After we succeed in transfering the money into your account, we will
give some
portion of the money to charity home in your country and then share the
remaining in the ratio 70% to 30% between you and I. If you are willing to
work with me in this regard, please, forward to me through this email
address:
1. Your full name and contact address
2. Your phone and fax number (cell phone)
Thanks and God bless you.
Best Regards,
Barr. Frank Elue
(SAN) (L.B Hons) B.L PhD
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