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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: "micheal brown" <michael_brown01@msn.com>
Reply-To: michael_browno01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:41:52 +0000
Subject: REPLY ASAP
Bills and Exchange
Standard Chartered
Bank London.
My dear friend,
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring that this is real and genuine. I am the director,
bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of the Standard
Chartered Bank London. 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 a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring
maximum confidence.
MY PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of US$26,000,000.00
(Twenty-six million united states dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our customers who died along with his wife and entire family on 25th
July, 2000,Air France Concorde flight 4590 plane crash.Since his death, none
of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for this
money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines, unfortunately, no family member nor relative has
ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, we now seek your
permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased so that the
funds (Twenty-six million united states dollars) can be released and paid
into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will
be returned to treasury as unclaimed funds. All documents to enable you
receive this funds will be carefully worked out.Please acknowledge receipt
of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing
me with the following; Your name, Telephone and fax numbers.We have agreed
that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; On final conclusion of
this project, 75% of this shall be for us, while 15% shall be for you and
the remaining 10% shall be used to compensate either party for any expenses
incurred. Your share 15% stays while,while our 75% share shall be used for
investment purposes in your country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have in you, I await your urgent mail.
Best Regards
Michael Brown
Michael_brown@yahoo.co.uk
For your confirmations,you can visit this website for more info
Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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