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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: KELVIN OWEN <koeskdj@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:34:31 -0500
Subject: Hello,
Hello, How are you doing today. Actually, I know you for sure that you might be skeptic about whom this may be. Well, I got your contact information through my private email search. Therefore, I choose to contact you directly because I believe you are a good fellow to transact business with and I hope you will not betray me at the end of the business that I will propose to you.
My name is Kelvin Owen, I worked in Halifax Investment & Securities Company here in London. On July 6, 2004, our client Mr. Frederick M. Wong of 112 Kent Street, Redwood City, California, a businessman and Industrialist deposited a consignment for 6 (six) calendar months, with a value of US$8.5 Million only with our security firm. Upon maturity six Months later, several notices where sent to him and no response came from him. A final Maturity Notice on his investment was sent early February last year and still no response came from him. Recently, the company officially sent a two-man delegate to his residence and his official address as stated in his confidential file with the company, only to find out that the business mogul and his wife perished in the ill fated Egyptian Flight 990 alongside his wife Lilla C. Wong . A confirmation of the death of Frederick M. Wong and his wife. After further investigations, it was also discovered that Mr. Frederick M. Wong did not declare any next of kin or trustee to the funds on behalf of the family of the deceased in his official papers apart from his wife who also died in the disaster, and he also confided in me the last time he visited my office that no one apart from his wife and me knew of this deposit. So, Eight million Five hundred United State Dollars is still lying in the security company and no one will ever come forward to claim it, that I know for sure. According to the statutory law of my firm, at the expiration of a couple of years, without any claim on the consignment, the funds will revert to the ownership of Government So, as everything is going and No one has come to claim the consignment since that time, I was opportune to get in contact with you so that you will act as the Next of Kin to claim the deposit. Be informed that there are practically No risks involved because I must perfect every arrangement to your favor and the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. So, do not entertain any fear why I contacted you because someone has to claim the fund as quickly as possible. Therefore, as soon as I hear back from you I shall confidently intimate you on how we shall go about it. Thanks for your understanding as I look forward to receiving your mail. Kelvin Owen,Tel: + 44 703184234599, Queen's Road Central, E13 5TY, East London, United Kingdom.
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