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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: "Mr. TODD WILLIAMS" <twcl@iol.cz>
Reply-To: toddwillntb@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:09:41 GMT
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED.
FROM=3A THE DESK OF TODD WILLIAMS (Mr=2E)
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignor=
e it as serious could come into your mind but please consider it with a =
divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility=2EBefore proceed=
ing=2C I wish to introduce myself to you=3B I am Todd Williams a staff o=
f Natwest Bank plc London=2E I am the head of the accounts department=2E=
I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable busin=
ess proposal which I believe will profit the both of us after completion=
=2E I contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of=
handling this business transaction=2C which i explained below=2E =
The sum of ( =A3 18=2C500=2C000=2E00 Million Pounds)=2C has been floa=
ting as unclaimed since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get across the=
relatives of our client who deposited the money have hit the stones=2ET=
here is this immigrant Mr=2E Andreas schranner=2C property magnate who w=
as based in the U=2EK=2E=2C who happens to be one of our very good clien=
ts=2E On the 25Th of July 2000=2C Mr=2E Andreas schranner=2C his wife Ma=
ria =2C their daughter Andr=E9a eich=2C her husband Christian=2C and the=
ir children katharina and maximilian all died in the air France concord =
plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise=2E =
http=3A//news=2Ebbc=2Eco=2Euk/1/hi/world/europe/859479=2Estm
All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless=2E My position h=
ere at my office requires me to investigate and I therefore made further=
investigations and discovered that Mr=2E Andreas Schranner did not decl=
are any next of kin or relation in all his official documents=2C includi=
ng his bank deposit paperwork in my bank=2EAccording to the British Law=2E=
The money will revert to the ownership of the British government if nob=
ody applies to claim the fund=2E =
To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed f=
unds=2C I have decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his =
next of kin so that the said fund ( =A3 18=2C500=2C000=2E00 million poun=
ds)=2C would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into y=
our account=2E All documents and proof that will have you claim this fun=
d will be forwarded to you without any stress upon your response to this=
mail more soon=2C i want to inform you that i have unanimously agreed t=
o offer you ( =A37=2E2M ) of the total sum for the assistance and role y=
ou are going to play in this transaction=2C(=A32=2E8 M)will be given to =
charity organizations in your country with your supervision while the re=
maining will be for me=2E Please send your confidential telephone and fa=
x number in your reply to this business transaction=2E PLEASE CHANNEL YO=
UR RESPONSE TO=3A toddwillntb=40yahoo=2Ecom=2Ehk
Kind regards=2C
Mr=2E TODD WILLIAMS
ACCOUNTS OFFICER =2E
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