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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: "george craige" <georgecraige_007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: georgecraige_007@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:59:51 -0500
Subject: HOW ARE YOU DOING, POINT BLANK
Prudential plc
Laurence Pountney Hill
London EC4R 0HH
I am Mr George Craig, Branch Manager Prudential plc Laurence Pountney Hill,
London.. I have an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you
that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ?20.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Twenty 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 only daughter. 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 relatives 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 other officials in this
department now 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 dont want this money to go
back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
This sum ?20.5million of has been carefully moved out of my bank to a
Financial and Security Company for safekeeping.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds. I contacted you to assist in claiming the money in the
Financial and Security Company where it is presently lodged.
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 by return 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.
Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further
directives.
Do not hesitate to discontinue immediatly if you are not convinient with
this transaction.
Best regards
Mr George Craige.
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