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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: "insurance compensations" <compensations2@msn.com>
Reply-To: g072mel@myway.com
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:44:15 +0000
Subject: can you assist???
Bello Bature
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC,
BRANCH OFFICE LAGOS.,
Lagos, Nigeria.
ATTN: MD/CEO
I am Bello Bature, Branch Manager with UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, BRANCH
OFFICE LAGOS.,, Lagos, Nigeria.I have an urgent and very profitable
business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme
confidentiality.
On January 6,1998 a Foreign Oil Consultant and contractor in Nigeria LATE
ENG STEVE MOORE'S by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve
calendar months valued at US$30.5M(THIRTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY) in my branch.
Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers in Nigeria
that LATE ENG STEVE MOORE’S died from an automobile accident.On further
investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further
investigations and discovered that LATE ENG STEVE MOORE’S did not declare
any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including his
Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$30.5Mhas been carefully moved out of my bank to a Security
Company in Europe for safekeeping. No one will ever come forward to claim it
and according to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 years the money will
revert
to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the
fund. This prompted us to contact you.We will like to front you as the next
of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the
sum of $30.5 million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Security Company in
Europe. I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and
operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the
money in the Security Company in Europe.
We have unanimously agreed that 40% of the entire sum would be for you if
you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,50% for me and 2 of my
colleagues while the remaining 10% would be used to pay back the expenses
that may be incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties
after the fund has been claimed and lodged in your account. In the event
that you are genuinely interested in the transaction,the following
information would be needed from you to expedite action.
1) Your Full Name and Address that would be used to establish you as the
next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of
the fund. This would ensure that the Security Company in Europe releases the
Consignment/Fund to you.
2) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at
all time because this transaction entails constant communication.
The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities has been perfected to
ensure the hitch free success of the transaction. If you are interested,
send the requested information via email.
I await your response urgently.
Regards,
Bello Bature
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