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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: barr.jbrown1861@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:29:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good Day Friend!
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- Good Day, From James Brown Chambers, Coperate Attorneys. 96a, Grays Inn Rd, London,WC1X 8AL. This is a personal email directed to you and I request that this be treated as such. My name is Barrister James Brown, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the my late client, who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of oct,2004. Since the death of my client, I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of Four Million, Eight Hundred GBP.(4.800.000.00m) On this note i decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity.I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me via this email or via my office signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and i shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank.However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction.Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. I will be anticipating your response at your convenient. Best Regards, Barr. James Brown.
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