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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: eric jeff <ericjeff001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <ericjeff18@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:19:12 +0000
Subject: Assistance
Manchester M27 5FX ,United Kingdom .
Email;ericjeff18@yahoo.com
Tel: +44 7031851625
Attn SirDo accept my sincere apologies if my mail does notmeet your personal ethics although. I am presently inLondon working as an investment consultant with theabove bank at their London office. And I am poised towork this deal out if we can do business. Be so kindto contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible
business deal involving money transfer of about £25,000,000
(Twenty-Five Million British Pounds).In one of our periodic auditing, I discover dormantaccounts with holding balance of 25,000,000(Twenty-Five Million British Pounds) which has notbeen operated for the past three years. From myinvestigations and confirmations, the owner of thisaccount is a foreigner, and he died without a WILL.As at this moment, I am constrained to issue you moredetails about this business until your response isreceived. And I would love to furnish you with alittle bit of my biography as we progress with thebusiness. As we have not meet before.So send me your nominate account information as statesbelow where you like the money to be transfer so thatI will write and apply an application for the releaseof the fund immediately into your account.This is extremely urgently
Best regards
Eric Jeff
Chief investment Consultant.Allied Irish Bank (GB).
Tel: +44 7031851625
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