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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: "Mr.Joseph Poon" <josephhkpoon@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:56:01 -0700
Subject: ....URGENT BUSINESS...
DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr.Joseph Poon Executive Director Of Operations of the Hang Seng Bank
Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong.
An Iraqi named Hamadi Hashem a business man made a numbered fixed deposit
of (346,736,899.68 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is
valued to Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
only in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him,
even during the war, four years ago (2003). Again after the war another
notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later
found out that Hamadi Hashem and his family had been killed during the war
in bomb blast that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his
personal oil well was.After further investigation it was also discovered
that Hamadi Hashem did not declare any next of kin in his official papers
including the paper work of his bank deposit. And 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, Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United
State 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 five years six months the funds will revert to the
ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to
instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest
surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the
money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of
kin
and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds FIFTY -
FIFTY. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but
that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the
deposit. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a
few
days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file
relating to Hamadi Hashem I will then officially communicate with my Bank
and instruct
them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of
the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in
this
project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be
vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this
message and
forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not
approve of my proposal.
You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be
hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I
make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I
cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control
of my destiny. These chances won’t pass me by. I ask that you do not
destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move
on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an
opportunity to provide them with new opportunities.
There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.
I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you
refusing to
work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this
situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you
into
the center of relevance in my life. Let’s share the blessing.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official
channels;I will
deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you
contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting
me
through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I
will provide for you and also through this email address:
Josephkpoon@yahoo.com.hk. I do not want any direct link between you and me.
My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to
assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management
Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I
am a
family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that
nothing
ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or
on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private
banking
clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should
plan a meeting soon.
Should you be interested please send me your full names, Phone Number and
current residential address and I will prefer you to reach me on the email
address
below
E-mail: Josephkpoon@yahoo.com.hk
Finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this operation.
Your earliest response to this letter will be
appreciated.
I await your response.
MR.JOSEPH POON.
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