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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: Ben Akubiyawa <b1954akubiyawa@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: With all due respect reply dear friend I am waiting for your message.
FROM: BARRISTER BEN AKUBIYAWA (Esq.).
ADDRESS: AKUBIYAWA PLAZA BLOCK SYNODAL1,
RUE JOKMAKE,LOME-TOGO, WEST AFRICA.
(PTE)LINE: (+228) 987-95-11.
E-MAIL: b.akubiyawa@hotmail.com
Dear friend.
With all due respect, I beg for your pardon please, if this message comes to you as a surprise. I am BARRISTER BEN AKUBIYAWA(Esq.)., an Attorney at law, and I had a client, who used to work with Shell Petroleum Company here in Republic of Togo before he died. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client. I want you to understand that you are bearing the last name or surname with my late client in question that caused me to contact you as you may likely be his relative.
As it may interest you to know how I came across to your contact.Please your contact was given to me by divine inspiration. And I contacted you as I was the personal lawyer to the client in order for you to inherit his fund without any problem.
This is the brief story of how this business came up,it was on the 21st of April 2005,my client,his wife and their two children were involved in a car accident along Kara-Sokode expressway,while arriving from a Holiday to Lome the capital of Republic of Togo here in West Africa,which all the occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.
He left the sum of Three Million Hive Hundred Thousand Euros Only
(¤ 3.5M.),in the custody of one Security Finance Bank here in Lome -Togo.The same Security Finance Bank has contacted me to provide the next of kin of the deceased who will inherit the fund otherwise they will declare the account unserviceable and confiscate the fund,if I fail to provide in the next of kin within three (3)Months.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the real relatives for over some years now,that's why I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased as you share the same last name or surname with my late client in question,so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you as the next of kin.
Therefore,I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 65% of the total sum as the next of kin,while 35% will be for me. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through.I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any violation of the law.
I promise to handle everything with you very confidentially. Please therefore furnish me with your complete names and telephone number for easy communication. Upon your reply I will information you the necessary step / guidelines which we will take to actualise this great business transaction to our both mutual trust and benefits.
Thank you in advance as you co-operate with me.I look forward to hearing from you and God Bless you.
Yours faithfully,
BARRISTER BEN AKUBIYAWA(Esq.).
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