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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: "kamran Tasharofi" <kamrantasharofi_11@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: kamrantasharofi_00@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:24:09 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT.
From:KAMRAN TASHAROFI
HSBC Holdings plc
8 Canada Square
London E14 5HQ
Attention:Sir/Madam,
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone
through your remarkable profile on the internet.Though,this medium
(Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because
it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of
communication. My name is KAMRAN TASHAROFI , I am the credit manager in a
bank here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer,
of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will
be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.
PROPOSITION:
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in an
earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh along with his
wife and entire family in December 26 2004 you can confirm this from the
published by CNN. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make
claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same
earthquake and tsunami-ravaged (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot
release the funds from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon
this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of
kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out by
me for the funds (US$5,000,000.00) to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that we have secured
from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following
information if you are interested. 1.A Beneficiary name, and complete postal
address..In order for me to prepare the documents for transfer of the funds
in your name. 2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers...For our personal contact
and mutual trust in each other,for more confidentiality and trust.I am
willing to offer you a million dollars ($1Million dollars) of the total
funds if you can assist me transfer the funds to your country or any Bank of
your wish, while the balance $4 Million dollars shall be for me for
investment purposes. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavour
to contact me immediately. I also wishes to invest in a stable economy. My
interest is in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms. I
am interested in placing part of the funds in your company,if your country`s
bi-laws allows foreign investment. Do not take undue advantage of the trust
I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail to my personal email
address: {kamrantasharofi_001@yahoo.com}
Yours sincerely,
KAMRAN TASHAROFI .
*Urgent*
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