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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: "Braithwait Jones" <braithwait_jones@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:56:17 +0000
Subject: ATT-READ AND REPLY IMMEDIATELY
HELLO,
I am { BRAITHWAIT JONES } , accountant for foreing bill of
exchange operation department of the INTERCONTINENTAL TRUST BANK PLC.
I am writing following the impressive information about you through an
internet geonological research .
In my department , we discovered a long term deposited fund of { $8.6, 000
000 m } EIGHT million six hundred thousand united states dollars
in an account which belong to a foriegn customer who died along side with
his nuclear family in a car accident in
April 21st 2003 Since the bank management received the
information about his death . the management have been
expecting his next of kin to come over for his or her
claim as the huge fund can not be release unless somebody
applies for it legally as the beneficiary / next of kin to
the deceased / fund as indicated in our banking guide .
Unfurtunately all efforts to locate the next of kin to the
deceased by the bank management proved abortive .
Now as the personal accountant
to the deceased , after much
official enquiry / verification through
the deposit files
of the deceased , i was able to realise that his
supposed
next of kin died along side with him at the car accident in
April 21st 2003 .
The banking law and guideline act 00.02 of the
foreign
beneficiary fund release stipulates that such fund remain
uncliamed after the existing period of seven years , as
the fund shall
be automatically transfered into the
national treasury account as
uncliamed bill . As the
personal accountant to the deceased , i
therefor decide to
make business with you by releasing the fund { $8.6
, 000
000 USD } to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safe
keeping of the fund / subsequent disbursement as i do not
want the fund
to be transfered into the national treasury
as unclaimed fund .
Note :
This transaction is 100% risk free as i have all
requisite information
which shall aid the total
accomplishment of this fund repatriation into
your personal
account as the beneficiary to the deceased . Upon the
confirmation of your positive response , i shall send to
you by fax /
mail the commencement step , full
information of the bank and that of
the deceased for
instant inception of this transaction .
State your
interest by corresponding back with your
informations which shall be
needed for the documentation of
your file which will prove you to the
bank as the legal
beneficiary to the deceased , the needed informations
are
as follows :
Your full name :
Full contact / postal address :
Contact phone / Fax number :
Occupation :
Age :
The uplisted
informations are requisite for the instant
commencement of this
transaction and feel free to contact
me via my mobile phone number {
+234-8056316613 } for
effective communication and further explanation on
this transaction .
and you most reply to my alternaltive email box(braithwait_jones@yahoo.com)
I look forward to your positive response .
Regards .
BRAITHWAIT JONES
Accountant INTERCONTINENTAL TRUST BANK PLC(ITB)
ATT-READ AND REPLY IMMEDIATELY.
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