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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: "abdallah mohammed" <mohaabb@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: mohaabdalla1955@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:45:30 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of BANK DKI JAKARTA INDONESIA. I am writing to you in respect of a
desperate search for a reliable partner to champion this transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $1.2b US dollars (one
billion, two hundred million United States dollars).In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in December 2000 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death,
we have been expecting the next of kin 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 but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that i decided to contact you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The
Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after eight years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an Indonesian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I will give
you 30 % of this money as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the
business and 60 % would be for me. There after I and my family will visit
your country.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in
the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you
by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this
letter through my secure email address: mohaabdalla1955@yahoo.com.hk
Trusting to hear from you
immediately
Yours faithfully
MR. Muhammad Abd'Allah
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK DKI JAKARTA INDONESIA
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