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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: Pete Belding <pete_belding1920@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: pete_belding@myway.com
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:28:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU TODAY?
The British Linen Bank Limited.
HBOS plc PO Box No. 5 The Mound
Edinburgh EH1 1YZ
DL-TELEPHONE: + 44-7011-139985
DATE: 26th February 2008
Good day, I know this will come to you as a surprise
but the need to involve a reliable and honest person
to transfer out 6,800,000.00 (Six Million, Eight
hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) from my
employers (The British Linen Bank Limited) has made me
to seek your assistance believing that you are the
right person that will aid me in this deal.
I am Mr. Pete Belding, non-executive director of HBOS
plc I was appointed on 1 May 2007 (The British Linen
Bank Limited) There is an Account opened in this Bank
in 2000 and since 2005, nobody has operated this
Account again, after going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that the Owner of the
Account is Late. The owner of this Account is Late Mr.
Martin Oram, A Foreigner and investor by profession.
He died in an Auto Crash and no other person knows
about this Dormant Account or anything concerning it
and the Account has no beneficiary and I want to
inherit these funds for my private use but as a
non-executive director, I cannot lay claims on the
funds by my self and that is why I have contacted you
to use your name as the next of kin/beneficiary to the
Dormant Account and transfer these funds for my
private use.
I want you to stand as the Next Of Kin so that I will
use my High-Rank position here in this Bank to
convince other co-staffs to effect Legal approvals and
onward Transfer of this money to your Nominated
Account as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary of the funds
with appropriate clearance from probate registry &
Foreign Payment Department. I will destroy all the
documents concerning this transaction immediately the
funds are transferred to your nominated Account
leaving no trace of the transfer to any place and
apply for my resignation as this will enable me come
over to your Country to collect my share and invest a
good part of it on projects you will advise me as
lucrative in your Country.
I will take 80% and you shall take 20% of the total
sum hoping that the sharing ratio is accepted by you.
I am desperately waiting for your urgent response.
Regards,
Mr Pete Belding
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