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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: cole_peterson45@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:28:16 +0000
Subject: Re: TREAT URGENTLY.
Greetings From Cole Peterson.
I write to seek your consent in a private and confidential matter regarding
some funds unaccounted for in my bank here in London during the last 2005
business year. I need assistance from a trustworthy and reliable person whom
I will fill in as the beneficiary. Your major role would be to provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately
to receive this money and get 20% of the total funds as commission. There
are practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, it
will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my
branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank
account under few working days.
I am Mr. Cole Peterson, the regional manager and I write you this proposal
in good faith; I am married with two lovely kids. It is my duty as the
regional manager to send in financial report to my head office in the
capital city London at the end of each business year. On the course of the
last year 2005 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am
the manager made eight million eight hundred and fifty thousand united state
dollars ($8,850,000.00) which my head office is not aware of and will never
be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account
with no beneficiary and as an officer of this bank I cannot be directly
connected to this money, hence i contacted you.
If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the
first and the only person I am contacting for this transaction. At this
juncture, I wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal. I have a
9-year old daughter who has leukemia, a disease of the blood, and she needs
a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be
done in any good children hospital in your country if there is one. Once
this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job and
bring my family to start a new life in your country. I would be grateful if
you would help me invest my own part of the money in a very profitable
business. I have worked for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have
nothing to show for it, I really need your assistance to secure this fund as
soon as possible.
I suggest you give me your private tel:no and fax: no for easy communication
stating your abilities in this deal. As soon as you receive this message if
you think we can work together so that we can go over the details.
Please reply to this my private e-mail contact for security reason
cole_peterson45@yahoo.com
Truly yours,
Mr. Cole Peterson
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