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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: "Mr.Coker Yakubu" <mrcokeryakubu@msn.com>
Reply-To: cokerraymond2005@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:13 +0000
Subject: From The Desk Top Of Mr Coker Yakubu
From The Desk Top Of Mr Coker Yakubu
United Bank For Africa,
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
ATTN:
I am Mr Coker Yakubu ,Branch Manager with United Bank For Africa,ILupeju
Branch, 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. David Keith by name made a numbered time Fixed
Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$9.6M (Nine 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 address but got no reply.After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers Nigerian
Railway Corporation that Mr. David Keith , died from
an automobile accident.On further investigation, we found out that he died
without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore
made Further investigations and discovered that Mr.David Keith
did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official
documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$9.6M 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 i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the next of kin
of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
$9.6 million 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.
I 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 may be
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 are
genunely
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 Office Telphone and Fax numbers AND your mobile phone where you
can be reached at all time because this transaction entailsconstant
communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all
modalities has been perfected to ensurethe hitch free succesof the
transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via my private
email box as soon as possible so that we can proceed.
Best Regards,
MR COKER YAKUBU
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