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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "HSBC BANK" <soniap@mttb-mautourco.com>
Reply-To: h_sbc2000@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:10:00 +0400 (MUT)
Subject: YOUR INHERITANCE FUND.
HSBC Bank PLC Moore Stephens Warwick Lane.
File Ref: HSBC/006/WT
Total No: Pages= cover +01
London EC4P 4BN HSBC Bank PLC
27/32 Poultry London EC2P 2BX
FSA, United Kingdom.
Date: 25:09:2008.
Chairman of London-based Banking Giant HSBC Holdings PLC.
RE- PART PAYMENT OF TWENTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS APPROVED.
This is meant for the payment from our ordering customer
Federal Government of Nigeria for the further Credit to
your bank account.
With all due respect our bank has obliged to credit
your account with instruction quoting reference payment
code which the Federal Government of Nigeria uses to
encode their consolidated crude oil reserved account
with us and this is as per agreement existing between
this bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and
the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Please get back to me for full details on this E-mail;
hsbcbnk@sify.com
h.sbc2000@hotmail.com
h_sbc2000@hotmail.com
Yours faithfully,
Sir. John Bond.
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