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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: "Attorney Mike Peterson" <mikep37@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: attorneymp@live.com
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:41:21 -0700
Subject: Transfer of Inheritance Funds.
*From The Desk:
Attorney Mike Peterson Esq.
London-England Uk.*
*Good day!!!*
*I am Attorney Mike Peterson the personal attorney to late (Mr. John A.
Michael) a nationality of your country who unfortunately died on the
Terrorist attack in Liverpool London on the dated 7th July 2005. Since the
death of (Mr. John A. Michael) I as his personal attorney have made several
enquiries to locate his relations to come up for the inheritance claim,
without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my
personal searching for my late client relations/next of kin so I decided to
contact you for this project.*
*I am contacting you to assist in securing the wealth left behind in a fixed
deposit account by my late client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an account The board
of Directors of the bank has issued and spread a notice that after 2 months
from now and no relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the
funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since The board of
Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in locating my client relatives
for sometime now, it's on this note that I seek your consent to present you
as the elation/next of kin to my late client that the proceed of this
deposit can be released into your account. The amount deposited $5.8 Million
Dollars also I believed with interest ($5.080.000.00USD) I will agree with
you on 60% for you while 40% for me. I guarantee that this transaction will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any
breach of the law.*
*Upon your response, furnish me with:*
*Your full name and address
Your telephone and fax numbers
Your occupation and age*
*As soon as I receive all these information from you I will present it to
the bank Directors that I have locate the relation to my late client since
they asked that I should provide the next of kin for them to release the
inheritance fund. Let me hear from you once you acknowledge my email. My
alternative email address is: **a7m7png@yahoo.co.uk* <a7m7png@yahoo.co.uk>*or:
**attorneymikepeterson@live.com* <attorneymikepeterson@live.com>* *
*Yours faithfully,
Attorney Mike Peterson.
*
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