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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: "Mail Me" <mail10x@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mails@di-ve.com
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:34:53 -1000
Subject: Re: My purpose of contact.
Attention,
I am sorry for contacting you through this medium without a previous notice,
I had to use the E-mail because it is an easier and more confidential way of
making contact with you especially with the fact that we have never talked
before. My name is Mr. T. Lawrence, an Attorney and also personal assistance
to Late Pitt Battle. Mr. Pitt was a contractor based in Ghana here but is
now deceased. My client lost his life alongside his wife and only child on
the 27th of January 2002 while on a visit to Nigeria. Details of this
incidence can be checked on the following website;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
Prior to the Death of my Late Client, He secured a contract of
$12,500,000.00 million from the Federal Government of Nigeria, following
which he received a 30% mobilization fee of US$3,750,000.00 Million and
successfully executed the contract, but the balance of S$8,750,000.00
Million contract payment was in the Process of being transferred into My
Late Client's Account which he submitted to the Federal Government when he
lost his life in the incidence.
Three Months after his sudden Death, The Federal Government of Nigeria
effected the transfer of the balance of his Contract Funds into the Account
that My Late Client has on his file with the Government. As his personal
Attorney before his death, I have been officially notified and instructed by
the bank here in U.K where the money is currently deposited that I should
provide and forward the particulars of Mr. Pitt's next of kin so that the
Funds in his Account can be remitted into his Next of Kin's Account in
accordance with British Laws.
However, as the personal attorney and close confidant of late Mr. Pitt, I
want you to know that my late Client died interstate, i.e.; He died without
leaving a Will. Hence, all my efforts to locate any of his relative whom I
can present to the Bank, proved abortive. The reason that i have contacted
you is because you bear the same last name as the deceased. I intend to
assist you if you are related to this man so that his money does not go in
vain. The Inheritance Law clearly leaves the onus of proof of who is or is
not the next of kin, to the deceased's Lawyer to prove. I will be glad if we
can have this issue sorted and of course talk about my settlement.
I wait to hear from you.
Sincere Regards,
Mr. T. Lawrence
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