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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: "sinmba kome" <sinmbakome02@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:11:24 +0300
Subject: FROM/SINMBA CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS. ATTN:
SINMBA CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS.
56 Rue Boulevard Djankasse
B.P.50214 Lome-Togo.
Dear friend,
As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through a
friend of mine who has a Cyber cafe here in Lome as I was seaching for a
good relaible contact which I will entrust this business oppurtunity into
its control, I was elated when I saw your address, and I picked a keen
interest with confidence to solicit for your help in executing this
oppurtunity. However, I was moved to contact you based on the present
situation of this oppurtunity which I may say that it is
God given time offer, There is a foreigner who lived here in Lome-Togo long
ago called Arthur Billings by name, and it happened that the man registered
to me as his private/ personal attorney, unfortunately the man died in a
plane crash which happened on 30th October, 1999. Owing to the death of this
man called Arthur Billings by name, his bank called on me for his balance
with the bank as his attorney since January 2002, to invite his relatives to
come and claim the money, I tried all I could to trace his family, but all
my efforts proved arbortive, then from November last year 2003, till now,
the bank has been presurising me to look for his family because they realise
that a lot of swindlers have been forwarding application to claim the money
as his next of kin, but after much verification, they found out that those
people were rogues, because they could not provide a legal evidence to prove
that they were his relative. Moreover, I have decided to use you as his next
of kin to claim the money for my own personal use as it happens that his
relatives were not available up till now, and I have all his documents in my
file which will back you up before the bank as his next of kin, I will still
obtain a genuine legal evidence which I will do with your name to satisfy
that you are the rightful next of kin to the deceased. Furthermore, the
amount involved is ($25,000,000.00)Twenty five million, United State
Dollars, therefore I will be happy if you can furnish me with your full name
and address which I will use to secure the legal documents which will back
you up as his heir next of kin. As soon as I receive your address, I will
form an application which you will submitt to the concerned bank as his next
of kin. Be rest assured that there is no risk involved as I have perfected
and made the neccessary arrangements to back you up in claiming the fund.
Finally, you have to maintain the high secrecy this business demands as the
bank does not know that I am using you to claim the money on my own.
Besides, I will compensate you with 30% of the total money for your help and
assistance, and I will invest my own part of the money in your country base
on your advice.You can now forward the address and your full name as I
demanded above for the transaction to commence in full.
Thanks as I await for your urgent reply.
Best Regards,
BARR SINMBA KOME.
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