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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: mike toure <mike_toure1001@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:21:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dearest One
FROM THE DEST OF MR MIKE TOURE:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK,
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
Attn: Sir/Madam,
Compliments of the day,
Before proceeding, I wish to introduce myself to you; I am Mr.Mike Toure The managing director in charge of auditing and accounting section of WESTMINISTER BANK branches here in London. I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal which I believe will profit the both of us after completion. I contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this business transaction, which I explain below.
There is this immigrant who was a gas consultant here in UK, who happens to be one of our very good clients who died in a plane crash in 1998. Before his death, he was having a closing balance of 33,000,000.00 (Thirty three Million British Pounds Sterling) in my branch with account No:0121121141454 & deposit code No: NXSLNWB. Upon maturity, a routine notification was forwarded to his address but we got no reply. I contacted you for assistance to enable the said funds be wire transferred into your
account after confirming that you are bearing same last name as our late client. All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.
According to the British Law, the money will revert to the ownership of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin of our late client since you are bearing same last name as our client to enable the above mentioned funds be remitted into any account provided by you before I come over to meet you for sharing. All documents and proof that will have you claim this fund without stress will be forwarded to you upon your response to this mail more so, I want to inform you that I have unanimously agreed to offer you 30% of the sum for the assistance and role you are going to play in this transaction, 20% will be given to charity organizations while the remaining will be my share. As a Christian, I cannot stand and see this money being sent to the British treasury while the poor suffer. Please send your confidential
telephone and fax number in your reply to this business transaction.
Note: For security reasons, kindly send all correspondence to my confidential email address thus: mike_toure111@yahoo.co.uk
God bless you
Yours sincerely
Mike Toure
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