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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: skyebankgh01@sify.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:15 +0600 (IST)
Subject: Still Waiting For Your Immediate Reply.
Mr. Martins Smith
Syke Bank
Accra Ghana
Attn: Sir,
RE: Swift Transfer Of US$4.5 Million
I am Mr. Martins Smith, Director of Skye Bank Ghana.
This is to officially inform you that sometime ago, in our bank your contract fund was brought to our bank from Economic Community of West African Foreign Contractor Payment Panel made of the subsequent countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Rep. Benin, Senegal, Ivory-coast, Gambia, Mali, etc. (Ecowas), AND AFTER SOME PERIOD, They call the fund bank to their treasury in World Bank. For this period of time the fund was in our bank, it generated an interest of US$4.5 Million, which we considered your long suffering as one of the West African Countries contractors that has not received his/her payment and we decide to pay you this interest fund via Swift Transfer into your account.
What we need from you to now is any form of your identification for example; youre international passport number or your driving license number, your telephone and fax number for easy communication.
In view of this you are hereby instructed to contact this office immediately through this fax/Email message and reconfirm your bank particulars.
The Skye Bank therefore apologizing for any form of delay you might have encountered in the course of the transfer.
We poised to serve you better, waiting to hear from you, please do reply to this E-mail: skyebankgha@yahoo.com for more clarification.
Thanks and God bless you in all your endeavors towards this transaction.
Best Regards,
Mr. Martins Smith
Syke Bank
Accra Ghana
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