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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: "peter ben" <peterbe1212112312131@iwon.com>
Reply-To: MR_PETERBEN00078@YAHOO.CO.UK
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
The Auditor/Headof DepartmentRoyal Bank ofScotland,United Kingdom.+44-7040-110197(Great Opportunity Very Urgent and Confidential)_______________________________________________Dear Friend,I want to transfer out £15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterling) from our bank here,I have the courage to look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable for this important transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but i don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to any local bank here in Scotland, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is pounds sterlings and the former owner of the account is John Hughes and he was a foreigner too.I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a foreign account as the real beneficiary.At the conclusion of this business, you will
be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during this process.Send me as a matter of urgent for onward processing:(1) Your Private: Tele& Fax Number(2) Your Account: Number(3) Your Account: Name(4) Your Bank: Address(5) Your Bank: Name(6) Your PassportI await your earliest reply,Thanks.Sincerely,MR. PETER BENPRIVATE EMAIL: MR_PETERBEN00078@YAHOO.CO.UK
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