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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Dr. peter Chang" <peter_ch2k@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:05:36 +0800
Subject: HELP THE NEEDY
Dear Sir,
First and foremost I would like to apologize for infringing on your privacy
by sending you an unsolicited email, I would have given you a call, but
rather I decided to contact you via an email to get us acquainted since
it is a safer way of private communication. If you must know, I came
about your contact information through a random search with my client
's name on the Internet while trying to locate any link to him.
I am Dr. peter m chang a personal account adviser/officer to a great late
industrialist who has an account in one of the top banks here in Malaysia.
He died few years ago without a written or an oral will to the best of my
knowledge from the information I gathered from his attorney here in Malaysia.
Since then nobody has operated on his account again.Hence,
the sums of money in this account is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing since the bank has
been sold on Monday, 19 September 2005 to another bank and the
management of the bank are now ready to release the funds to any
foreigner who has the correct information of the account before fully
handing over the management to the new bank. The owner of this account
is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or
anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary.
My investigation through the National immigration department
proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry into Malaysia.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.
Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management
of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to
this account which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to
do this business with me.
Essentially, before I will disclose the said amount to you, I must solicit
your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of
its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction
of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward
investment. You can either provide us with an existing account
or to set up a new bank account immediately to receive this money
,even an empty bank account can serve to receive this money
, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me
down either now or in future.
As soon as I hear from you, and upon your strong assurance that
you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I
will then start to process the transfer of the fund to your account
without further delay.
If interested contact me urgently for further details.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr peter chang
Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia
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