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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: PETER JOSEF <peterjosef@caramail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:57:46 +0100
Subject: ASAP
Dear Friend,
I am MR PETER JOSEF, a private financial consultant.
I am the personal financial / business consultant to
a foreigner who worked and died in U.K.without any
will. I have made several enquiries to your Embassy
to locate any of my clients relatives immediate and
extended, this has proved unsuccessful.
After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his relatives over the Internet and locate any
member of his family but of no avail. Hence, I am
contacting you. I need you to assist in securing the
money and property left behind by my client before
they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank where his huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, the bank where the deceased had a
domicilliary account valued Twenty-seven million,
five hundred thousand ($27.5m) United States
Dollars. The bank has issued a notice to provide the
Next of Kin or have the account confiscated within
the next one month.
Since I have been unsuccesful in locating the the
relatives for over two years now I seek your consent
to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at $27.5
million Dollars can be paid to you and then you and
me can share the money. 60% to me and 37% to
you,while 3% should be for expenses or tax as your
government may reqiure.
I have all necessary documents to back up claims as
Next of Kin on your behalf. All I require is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with
me by email to enable us discuss further.
Best regards,
PETER JOSEF
PS,please delete this letter if you are not
interested or better still reach me on this
email:peterjosef11@caramail.com
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