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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: "larry whyte" <larrywhyte22@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:59:38 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,
Dear Friend,
I am soliciting your confidence in this business; this is because of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though, I know
that a business of this sort will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that this transaction is safe.
I am Mr.Larry whyte, a Credit Officer with Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc.
For the cause of this transaction, I am working in collaboration with
Barrister,Williams Ikimi an attorney to a national of your country,
Mr.Ailing Tam who was a ship Merchant and maintained a huge account
with my bank here. My cordial relationship with him afforded me to be
the account supervisor.
I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the
transfer of his abandoned huge sum of money to a foreign account
requiring maximum confidence. I have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction.
Ever since Mr.Ailing Tam travelled, he has not made any contact with
me, the attorney or any body that we know since April 2001. Valuable
efforts have been made by the attorney to get in touch with him or
relatives but to no success. The assumption that Mr.Tam must have been
dead is confirmed by the attorney on his inability to follow up all
pressing transactions then, which all of them have been terminated. I
have contacted you or any person you know that is capable to work with
me as a next of kin irrespective of same surname or not.
This is in the light of a government financial regulation order, to
freeze
any account containing huge sums of money that has been dormant for a
less than the period of time we are talking about. The bank has made
arrangement for the fund to be declared unclaimed and subsequently be
donated to the government trust fund. To forestall a total loss, the
attorney has agreed with me to put the modalities I am proposing to you
now in place, to manage the fund and bring it to safe point until we
are able to trace or decide further what to do. I now seek your
permission to have you stand as the next of kin so that the fund $8.2M
(Eight point two million united states dollars) will be released and
paid into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable get this fund will be carefully
worked out. I found it more convenient to commence on the transaction
since I have all information to influence all procedures to this effect
both from the bank and from the attorney's assistance.
We are assuring you that your Involvement in this business is 100% risk
free. Moreover this arrangement will be possible under the mandatory
power of probate claims to be issued by the attorney, who is standing
by us in this transaction to see what we can keep out of the lot that
would have been confiscated and wasted by the government.
You shall retain a percentage that would be agreed between us while the
rest will be in our care for investment purposes.
As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I would furnish you with
the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties
without any conflict including every other detail you may wish to know.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust we have bestowed in you. Please endeavour to send your
telephone and fax numbers so that i can reach you. On receiving your
reply, I shall give you a call to finalize all arrangements for a hitch
free transaction.
Regards,
Mr.Larry whyte
reply to larrywhyte20@yahoo.com
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