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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: "ANDREWS WHITE" <andrewswhite@gala.net>
Reply-To: andrews.white1000@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 05:58:14 -0700
Subject: Assistance Needed.
Dear,
I am a staff of Zenith Bank Plc Lagos Branch. I am writing following an
opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12.7M (Twelve Million
Seven Hundred Thousand , United states dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers, Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot
release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or a
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learned that his supposed next of kin being his only
daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the
knowledge of this fund to claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with
you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the
funds for safe keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as the supposed next of
kin, while 3% out of the total sum is set aside for any expenses both party
will incur during the completion of the transfer, and remaining balance of
77% will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money
gets into your account in any safe you will prefer. Please be honest with me
and trust should be our watchword in this transaction.
Note that this transaction is highly confidential and 100% risk free.
On receipt of this mail, please contact me by return mail if you are willing
to enter into this deal with me. In the event you are not interested, I
sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am
very careful not to truncate my banking career should you mention this to
someone else that might blow the lid. I hope you can be trusted in this
regard as I am fully aware that you are an international figure hence this
approach.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your positive response.
Please in your response include your direct secured telephone number for a
better communication between you and me only.
Best regards,
Dr Andrews White.
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