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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: "eesdt2 Gazeta.pl" <eesdt2@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: absw11@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:50:42 +0100
Subject: REPLY.
GREETINGS,
I am Dr. Abiola the manager of Auditing and Accounting department
of a prime bank in Africa. In my department, i discovered an abandoned
sum of US$26 Million dollars (tweenty six million dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers(John Shumejda) who died in
a plan crash on 4 January 2002. You can view this CNN site for more
details.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane
I need a reliable someone with a foreign account to be able to receive
this money, even an empty account can serve to claim this money. Should
you be willing to complete this transaction, send to me your private
telephone number for easy and effective communication and location. As
soon as the transfer is concluded you are entitled to 25% of the total
fund. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you more details on this
transaction or call me +2348035254945 .
Contact mail: absw11@gmail.com
trusting to hear from you
Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Abiola
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