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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: williamthabo02@aim.com
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:11:39 +0200
Subject: GOOD BUSINESS OFFER
Good Day,
Although, I do not know you in person, I got your contact via personal search on
the internet, Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. William Thabo a
banker in the ABSA Bank Ltd, South Africa. I have a profitable transaction for
you. I was attending a business luncheon in September 1999 in china and I was
introduced to Mr. Andreas Schranner, a renowned German Real Estate/Property
magnate.
He later employed my services as a banker and investment Consultant, Three
months later he invited me and told me of his desire to open a fixed deposit
account, he could fall back to on retirement, under my professional guidance and
based on my advice he made a fixed deposit of USD25,500,000(Twenty Five Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in one of our branches.
This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact my
client, l could not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and there I got
the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their
daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and their children Maximilian
and Katharina, all perished in the Monday, 31 July, 2000 plane crash in western
German city of Moenchengladbach.
Please Click here and find out what happened to the Mr. Andreas Schranner :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
After further investigation, l also discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did
not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of
his bank deposit. And l remember he also confided in me the last time he was at
my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty Five
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is still lying in my bank
and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that
according to the laws of my country at the expiration of a numbers of years the
funds will revert to the ownership of the South African Government as unclaimed
funds if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Andreas Schranner so that you will
be able to receive his funds. Should you be interested please send me your full
names and Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers, and I will prefer you to reply me on
the email address below:
Email: williamthabo02@aim.com then I shall provide you with more details of
this Transaction.
Please also note that I am willing to give you 25% of the total money for your
assistance.
Your earliest response to this proposal will be appreciated.
Be well and God Bless.
Best Regards,
Mr. William Thabo
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