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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: "Shaw Green" <shawgreen4@msn.com>
Reply-To: shawgreen@sify.com
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:44:51 +0000
Subject: Good day
Good day friend !
I am Shaw Green staff of International Private Banking. I am contacting you
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks
management five years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the
contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the
information you come by as a result of this mail. I am contacting you
independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this
communication. I am wholeheartedly, convinced that this exclusive
information I am about to intimate you with will bring immense benefit to
you and me if you would be willing to work it out with me.
Now, in 1999, a certain Mr. Andreas Schranner deposited the sum of
$32,700,000 (Thirty Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand U S Dollars) with our
private banking division, which he wished to have us turnover (invest) on
his behalf As a routine, the favored route in my advice to customers is to
start by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and
2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on my advice, we spun the
money around various opportunities and made attractive margins. In June 2000
he wrote to us asking that the terms of the initial investment be revoked,
as he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in the
United States of America.
Unfortunately, in July of that same year, tragedy struck when a Concorde
airline AF4590 plane crashed killing all 108 passengers on board including
Mr. Andreas Schranner. (For more Information please see BBC News on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.)
Since this sad incident 5 years ago, our bank has been waiting for any heir
or relation of the deceased to file claim for the money. Unfortunately, up
till date no claim has been made by anyone from the deceased’s family. And
failing to receive viable claim by the end of our organization’s financial
year ending 31st March 2006, the bank will most probably claim the deposit
and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the Private Banking
division. Though this business may seem smacked of unethical practice, I
want you to understand that it is only an outsider to the banking industry
that will see the internal politics of the banking world as aberrational.
The entire world of private banking especially, is fraught with huge rewards
for those occupying certain offices and overseeing certain portfolios. I am
sure you have by now begun to put together the general direction of what I
propose. I alone have the relevant details to make you a Business Partner to
the deceased. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track
this man’s family; they have investigated for months and have found no
family left for claimant. The investigation has almost come to an end.
If you accept my proposal, I am prepared to place you in a position where
the funds can become your inheritance as the business partner of the
deceased, a position that will give you legal rights over the funds in
question.
We can fine-tune this based on our interaction. I am aware of the
consequences of this proposal, therefore, I ask that if my offer is of no
appeal to you and you find no interest in it, kindly discard this mail and
delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Please do not try to be
vindictive as that may destroy my career.
I await your response.
Thanks for your understanding
Shaw Green
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