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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: "COLLINS MIKE" <intr_coll_mike_20062@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:27:08 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange Foreign Operations Department of
Natwest Bank London. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that
will be of imense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of £10.5million British Pounds Sterling (Ten million five
hundred thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers Late Mr. Craig Pulanco 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 can go through
this site:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves 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 decided 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 don’t want
this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.The
banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after
five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for my colleagues and I. 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. Note this transaction
is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should
contact me through my e-mail address. Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you as has been
finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Best regards
Collins Mike
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