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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: "Emmanuel Okom" <emmanuelokom17@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: emmanuelokom542008@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:37:04 +0200
Subject: From Mr Emmanel Okom /Please Call Me.
*My Dear , *
*Permit me to inform you my desire of going into business relationship with
you .I got your contact through my careful search of trust worthy assistance
in the net.*
*I prayed over it and selected your name among other (2) names i got also
due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendation give to me as a
reputable and trust worthy person i can do business with and by their
recommendation i must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and
sincere business, This proposal is real and I want you to consider it very
important and I am assuring you that it is not a dubious mail. I am Mr
Emmanel Okom, the director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of
Ecobank Benin , and also a Relationship Account Officer to Al Saeed Gupta,
a Lebanese.
He was a Seasoned Contractor with Benin Cement Company in Benin Republic,
who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africaines
Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou , Benin republic in December 25, 2003.
You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website
**www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/>
* or **www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/26/content_293549.htm*<http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/26/content_293549.htm>
*
Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Al Saeed Gupta has a fixed
deposit account with the bank and no other person knows about this account
or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him
in the crash.
Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you.
I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank to the
government. Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 7 weeks now.
I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so
that the proceeds of this account valued at US$10.170 million can be paid to
you and then you and me can share the money in proportion 60% to me and 40%
to you.
I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.
All documents of transaction will be destroyed immediately we receive this
money leaving no trace to any place.
If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email your following
information to me:
a. Complete names
b. Private telephone number
c. Your sex and age.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Emmanel Okom.
Tel:+229-97989972.*
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