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If you ended up on this page after seeing the address mentioned in an e-mail, please read the following:
A so called "Advance Fee Fraud" e-mail, like the one below, is circulating on the internet. In some of these e-mails a reference is made to an aircraft accident in January 2000 involving a Kenya Airways plane. In some cases a reference is made to the Aviation Safety Network as well.
The Aviation Safety Network has nothing to do with this fraud and warns you NOT to reply to those messages.
For more information on these "Advance Fee Fraud" e-mails, please check out:
- United States Secret Service: Advance Fee Fraud Advisory
- West African advance fee fraud (U.K. Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad)
- Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery
Fraudulous e-mail sample:
EMAIL FROM RANDYOLU01@emailaccount.com
Dear
I am an accountant with CITIZENS INTERNTIONAL BANK; my
name is Mr. Randy Olu a Banker. I am the Accounts
officer to ENGINEER A. Hubbard a National of your
country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF
PETROLEUM RESOURCES VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS.
Here in after shall be referred to as my client On 30
JAN 2000, my client, his wife, and their three
children were involved in the Kenya airways flight
with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from
Nairobi to destination Lagos and they all family died
in this fatal air crash on 30 JAN 2000 Since then I
have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate
any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also
proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate
any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged, particularly the CITIZENS INTERNTIONAL BANK. Where the deceased had an account Valued at about ($35 million u s dollars) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin. Or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased since
you have the same last name so that the proceeds of
this account valued at ($35 million US Dollars) can be
paid to you and then you and me Can share the
money.40% to me and 35% to you and 20% for any charity organization in your country. While 5% for unforeseen bottlenecks we might incur in this transaction, an attorney will be contracted to help us revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you and me from any breach of the law.
Best regards,
Mr. Randy Olu
For Verification and Confirmation of the incident visit the website
http://www.aviation-safety.net/database/2000/000130-0.htm