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Fraud email example:
From: "MR AMAR SALLY" <amar@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: amar_2006@walla.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:57:20 +0000
Subject: RE;READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP CONFIDENTIAL
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
Credit National Du Senegal.
Senegal Dakar.
Dear Partner,
Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine.
Please let this message do not be a surprise to you because i got your
contact information and lay all the trust in you before i decided to
disclose this confidential and successful transaction to you.
I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i
decided
to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY
NINE
MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($29,300, 000.00 )
for
our present future success.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to
one of
our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family on
through
plane crash disaster about 3 years ago.Meanwhile i was very fortune to
came
across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned
customers files of 2001-2004 in other to submit to the entire bank
management for an official
re-documentation.
Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and
signed
lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of
FOUR(4)
years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died, the
money
will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed
fund.Besides, it
is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of senegal
to make the claim of the fund.So the request of you as a foreigner is
necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into
your
reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
Note that when the fund is transferred into your account, Thirty Five
Percent (35%) will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the
transfer of the fund into your account and provision of the bank
account
where the bank will remit the fund into,Fifty Five Percent (55%) will
be for
me as the rest Ten Percent(10%) will be shared to Charity
Organisations
Centers, Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless people that surrounded
us
around the World.
If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and
confidentiality,
and accept not to cheat, betray or disappoint me after this when the
fund is
transferred into your account, reply for the
re-assurance with your telephone and fax numbers necessary for
effective
communication. As soon as you reply , call me through my private
telephone
number on (002214225911) so that i will let you know the steps and
procedures to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.
I expect your urgent communication.
Yours sincerely,
MR AMAR SALLY
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