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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: Linda Henshaw <linda.henshaw5@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:24:52 -0800
Subject: Reply.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
This e-mail message is from Mrs. Linda Henshaw. Thismessage is for the sole use of the intendedrecipient(s) and may contain confidential andprivileged information. Any review,use,distribution ordisclosure by others is strictly prohibited.If you arenot the intended recipient (or authorized to receivefor the recipient),please contact the sender by replyemail and delete all copies of this message.
Greetings to you,This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but Ibelieve it is only a day that people meet and becomegreat friends and business partners.My name is Mrs.Linda Henshaw, the present branch Manager of a bankhere in Nigeria West Africa. I write you this proposalin good faith, believing that I can trust you with theinformation I am about to reveal to you. LikeI said, Ihave a transaction that will benefit both of us, asyour assistance is required as a foreigner.
I use to head the Accounts department in my bank headoffice, but last December I was asked to take positionof a Manager of our branch in Lagos who passed on,sothat was how I became the present Manager anddiscovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discoveredan account with total sum of $10.5 million that hasnot been operated on for the past 4 years.From myinvestigation,I found out that this account belongs toone Late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev a Russian big timeOildealer, who unfortunately lost his life in the AirFrance Concorde on July 26, 2000. You will read morenews about the crash on visiting these site;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/851119.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
I have kept a close monitoring of the account sincethen and nobody has come forward to claim the moneyas next of kin to the late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev meaningthat no one is aware of the account. I can notdirectly take out this money without the help of aforeigner and that is why I am contacting you for anassistance to claim the funds and share it with me. Asthe Manager of my bank branch, I have the power toinfluence the release of the funds to any foreignerthat comes up as the next of kin to the account, withthe correct information concerning the account, whichI shall give you.I am seeking your co -operation topresent you as the next of kin to the account. Thereis practically no risk involved, the transaction willbe executed under a legitimate arrangement that willprotect you from any breach of law.If you accept towork with me, I want you to state how you wish us toshare the funds in percentage, so that both partieswill be satisfied. Contact me as soon as you receivethis message if you feel we can work together,so as togive you more details.
Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.
I wait your urgent response.
Regards,
Mrs. Linda Henshaw
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