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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: official_dpt@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 05:03:53 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Your=20Assistance=20Needed=20From=20=28MR=2E=20JOHN=20WEST=2E=29=20STANDARD=20BANK=20LONDON=20?=
account_officials2o2.pl
MR. JOHN WEST.
STANDARD BANK LONDON ,
5TH FLOOR CANNON BRIDGE HOUSE
25 DOWGATE HILL LONDON EC4R 2SB UNITED KINGDOM .
Sir,
I am a staff of Standard Bank London . I am writing following an
opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of £15.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Fifteen million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,
including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash
on
visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
account_officials2o2.pl
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only
daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the
knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make business with you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety
keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
dont want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed
bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money
remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking
treasury as unclaimed funds.
I have decided that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, 5% will be used for all expenses we may incur while moving the
funds
while the balance 60% will be for me. I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this
money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our
watchword in this transaction. Note this transaction is confidential and
risk free. All documents will be obtained from London in your name to
put you in place as the Next of Kin.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of
these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details
when I do receive your response. Please in your response include your
telephone number for easy communication between us.
Best regards
Mr. John West.
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