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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: Henry Peters <henrypeters005@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:17:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLS.
Dear ,
With due respects and regards, I am Dr.Henry Peters, the DIRECTOR,PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES,ABIDJAN. With all trust and pleasure, I am hereby contacting you as Igot your email contact from the Internet schedule.
Please I have a very confidencial and risk free business transaction Iwill like to carryout with you, it involve the TRANSFER OF US$65 MILLION INTO A PERSONAL/COMPANY'S OFFSHORE ACCOUNTBased on the information gathered from the Ministry of Trade and
Industry,we intend to solicit your assistance on this transaction with you on the assumption that you will not disappoint us. It is true we do not know each other but i quess this transaction would bring us together
and make us know each other and become partners. I must tell you this business is not just one of those letters outthere but i have come to you with a real deal of very beneficial to mutual interest.
We have Sixty Five Million, United States Dollars (US$65,000,000.00) which we made over time from over inflated contracts in my Ministry (Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services) and havesuccessfully deposited in a city called IMO STATE which is outside my country Cote d'Ivoire for safety purposes.
We are seeking your assistance and permission to remit this amount intoyour account or any other nominated account you can provide for us. We are ready to offer you a very useful percentage as gratification forassisting us as a foreign beneficiary and work directly on the bank and get the said fund transferred into your account.
Your commission will be 20% of the total sum, 5% for expenses that you might make for some little tax the bank might ask before transfering and the remaining 75% is for my colleagues and myself.
Could you please notify me of your acceptance to carry out this transaction urgently on the receipt of this message.May i also at this point assure you that there is no much proceedure in this transaction since it was wisely deposited, what we only need to dois to get the required approval to the bank and present you as my foreign beneficiary and then instruct the bank to treat you with full respect and grant you any request you might sought of them and quickly release the fund to you immediately, every arrangement would perfectly
be put in place as soon as you confirm and indicate your willingness to assist in this transaction and also benefit yourself.
All the necessary documents that was issued by the bank and was obtained by me on the day of deposit are all safe in my private costody and i shall release these documents to you as soon as you confirm your willingness to assist. I repeat again, there is no risk to take in this transaction since what the bank whould only need is the legal documents that covers the fund which was issued by them and they will quickly inform us the requirements to get our fund retransferred into a beneficiary's account.
Before these arrangements start matching on the bank for the transfer of the fund into your account we shall need to sign some paper like agreement of mutual trust to enable both of us feel free of cheating
during the time of sharing. These agreement paper shall be prepare by an Attorney.
Kindly, acknowledge the receipt of this letter by sending your private Tel. And Fax number and also state your wish in this deal.
I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application to secure the necessary approvals for the immediate release of this fund into your account.
Awaiting your Urgent response for proceed.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours faithfull
Dr.Henry Peters
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