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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: "Pat Edem" <patedem2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: patedem2@yahoo.ie
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:40:19 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY
GOOD DAY
>From The Desk Of,
Mr.Pat Edem
Union Bank Of Nigeria,
Lagos Nigeria.
Dear Sir/Madam.
I am Mr.Pat Edem, Branch Manager with Union bank of Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria. I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality. On
January
6, 1998 a Foreign Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian Railway
Corporation Mr. Abbas Gumeri by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for
twelve
Calendar months valued at US$15.6M (Fifteen Million, Six Hundred United
States Dollars Only) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
Policy to his forwarding addresses but got no reply. After a month we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers
Nigerian Railway Corporation that Mr. Abbas Gumeri died from
anautomobile accident. On further investigation, we found out that he
died without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin were
fruitless.I therefore made further investigations and discovered that
Mr. Abbas Gumeri did not declare any Next of kin correlations in all his
official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.This
sum of US$15.6M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial
and Security Company in Europe for safekeeping. No one will ever come
forward to claim it and according to the Law of my country, at the
expiration Of 7 years the money will revert to the ownership of the
State (Government)
If nobody applies to claim the fund.
This prompted us to contact you. We want you as the next of kin of our
late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
$15.6Million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security
Company in Europe. I contacted you because it is against our code of
Ethics to own and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be
Needed to claim
the money in the Financial and Security Company in Europe. We have
unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for you if you agree
to take
part in this profitable Transaction, 65% for me while the remaining 10%
would be used to pay back The expenses that maybe incurred during the course
of
the transaction by both parties after the Fund has been claimed and lodged
in your account. In the event that you aregenuinely interested in the
transaction, the following information would be needed from you to
expedite action
1) Your Full Name.
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Your Private Mobile, Telphone and Fax numbers
Where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entails
Constant communication.The transaction is 100% legal and totally free
of risks as all Modalities have been perfected to ensure the hitch free
successor the transaction. If you are interested, send the requested
information via email as soon as possible so that we can proceed and
after
sending it urgently.
Regards,
Mr.Pat Edem
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