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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: =?utf-8?q?tony=20frank?= <tony_frank016@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: tonyfrank224@katamail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:25:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLEASE.
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: tony_frank016@yahoo.com.ph
FROM THE DESK OF MR. TONY FRANK,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT,
UNION BANK PLC,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
Permit me to introduce myself to you, My name is MR.TONY FRANK., I am
one of the Senior Managers in the bank I work for (Union Bank,
Nigeria PLC)and I work under the Director of Foreign Exchange
Operations
(International Remittance). I am contacting You presently because I
need your urgent assistance in a business transaction that will be
of immense benefit to both of us.
I have the immediate need to transfer some money that has long been
declared "UNCLAIMED" by the chairman and some members of the board of
directors of our bank. The money is the closing balance of one of our
best customers ever, Late Engr. Manfred Marshall, I was his
personal account officer just before he died in the ADC plane crash
of 1996 in Nigeria.
Engr. Marshall an American citizen was a contractor with the
Federal Government of Nigeria, he supplied and installed equipment
and
his company Creek land Contractors completed some of the best
construction contracts in the country. His closing balance in the
Bank, Union Bank of Nigeria PLC (US$25.Million) has been tagged
Unclaimed because no relative of Engr. Marshall has come forward to
make a statement of claim. We have no knowledge of a next of kin.
At this point I trust you can picture what the situation is like.
We have strong proof that the chairman and the board of directors
will keep most of the money for themselves and use it
for their personal use, hence my mission.
My colleagues and my self have made several attempts at locating
persons that could be remotely related to Engr. Marshall and we have
been doing this for about 4 years without sucess,I have presently
decided on moving the money to a foreign account. I am hereby
soliciting your assistance and I will be very grateful if you will
be willing to help in this regard.
We have access to most of what it will take to transfer the money. The
only thing we do not have is a safe account. We will provide you with
answers to all the security questions, which you will have to
answer to move the process towards completion. We will also provide
you answers to questions that only a person related to him will
know. You may however not need to make any appearance; every thing
will be concluded on phone and email between you and the bank
[UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC, LAGOS] for your participation you will get
30%, 5% has been earmarked for the expensesthat may be incurred on
both ends. 65%shall be for my colleague and I.I make this proposal
in trust and in good faith, therefore, if you are interested and
you agree to assist me then contact me immediately you receive this
email, there is a lot more to talk about. If you are not
interested, then, please, do get rid of this email and please
forgive me if this message has upset you in any way.
Thank you and best regards.
Mr.TONY FRANK .
- tony frank
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