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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 BENJAMIN VUSI" <benvusi@sify.com>
Reply-To: bvusi00@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:59:21 -0700
Subject: Mr. Benjamin Vusi
Mr. Benjamin Vusi
Rennies Bank of South Africa ,
A Division of Bidvest Bank Ltd.
E-mail address,bvusi00@yahoo.com.hk
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mr. Benjamin Vusi manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of Rennies Bank. In my department, We discovered an abandoned sum
of US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one of our customers who died
along with his entire family, on February 04 2000, in a ghastly plane crash,
MR MORRIS THOMPSOM. Since we got the information about his death, we have
been expecting his next-of-kin to or a business partner Come over and claim
his money because we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as
next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. You should read
more about the crash on visiting this site (
www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/)
It is based on this that I decided to establish a confidential business
relationship with you, hence by contacting you. I want you to present
yourself as business partner as your relation with the deceased, so that the
funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, I do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and
all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this
financial year of 2008, when if nobody come forward to lay claims. The
reason for requesting you to present yourself as business partner is
occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and I
have access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to
present
yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 60% to me, and for the role you will be expected to play
in this deal, I you going home 30% of the total sum and 10% for the expenses
we are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of this
transaction. Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter indicating
your readiness and interest to participate in this business. After receiving
your reply, you will be contact with the exact steps to take. I expect your
urgent response through my confidential email address (joekhumalo@msn.com)
With the following info.
1 Your direct confidential cell/telephone and direct confidential fax
numbers.
2 Your full names
3 Your Age
4 House address/company address if any.
5 Occupation/profession.
6 Marital status
And I shall contact you for further discussion on this matter, to enable us
conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch. Please treat
this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons
considering my official position in the Bank.
Personal Regards,
Mr. Benjamin Vusi
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