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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: "contact jp" <contact2008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: contact2007@excite.com
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:35:13 +0000
Subject: RELATIVE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Hello,
I am the Manager Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department
(FRD) of Standard Trust Bank of Nigeria (STB). I got your contact through
internet while I was searching for an honest business partner who will
assist me in this transaction.
We, in FRD, discovered the sum of US$17M (Seventeen Million United States
Dollars) in an abandoned account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers, Robert Ebner, who died in a plane crash november 1999. Please
visit www.sptimes.com/News/110299/Worldandnation/Passenger_list_for_Eg.shtml
for your perusal. Since we got the information of his death, we have been
expecting any of his relatives to come forth and claim the money because the
bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or
relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but the we
gathered from a reliable source that none of his relatives is aware of this
money.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth for it and it would not
benefit anyone if the money is allowed to go into the bank's treasury as
unclaimed Fund.
The request of foreigner as a next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.
Upon your response in principle, detail information on the practicability of
this transaction will be relayed to you while the disburement of the money
will 30% for you and 60% for us in the bank. Please note that this
transaction is hitch-free as it involves no risk whatsoever. I awaite your
earliest response.
My regards.
James Peters.
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