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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: "Fehmi Mehmet" <fehmi_mehmet15@msn.com>
Reply-To: fehmi_mehmet@myway.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:12:14 +0000
Subject: HELLO FROM FEHMI MEHMET !!!
Fehmi Mehmet
110 Half Edge Lane,Ellesmere Park,
Eccles, Greater Manchester,
United Kingdom
Dear Friend,
I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. I am writing following an
oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of £26.5million British Pounds
Sterling (Twenty Six million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash
of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,
including his wife and onlydaughter. You shall read more about the crash on
visiting this site.
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/> and
<http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html>
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only
daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the
knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two otherofficials in
this department now decided to make business with you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety
keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed
bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,
while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the
percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account.
Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this
transaction.Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me byreturn mail.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of
these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details
when I do receive your response.Do call me and lets discuss more on this.
Best regards
Fehmi Mehmet.
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