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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?haggi=20maggi?= <haggimaggi@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 21:44:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT HELP



JOHANNESBURG,

SOUTH AFRICA

ATTN: C.E.O/DIRECTOR



URGENT HELP

I am Mrs. HAGGI MAGGI, the wife of the commander in chief, special force for protection of the President. During the reign of President Charles Taylor, my husband was one of those in forefront to oppose the killings of innocent people in the republic of Liberia.

Due to this reason, the then president Charles Taylor jailed my husband in an unidentified place which later revealed that my husband died in prison although that his remains has not been found till date. The problem that led to imprisonment of my husband started when Charles Taylor gave him the sum of $10million to acquire some weapon of mass destruction that will be secretly used to fight the rebels.

But my husband looking at the volume of lives that will be killed if such weapon is used refused to acquire the weapon. The then president noticing this and knowing that he cannot make it known to the world that he wanted to acquire weapon of mass destruction decided to jail my husband and it is now clear that he killed my husband inside the jail to block the truth from surfacing.

My husband before his death foresee what was about to happen told my son to move out of Liberia with the money as he was going to be the next target which he did immediately. My son AMEDFIL MAGGI is currently in south Africa as a refugee and due to the fact that he is not feeling confortable to stay in Africa, he wants now to move this fund out of south Africa.

So my purpose of contacting you is to solicit for your assistance in helping my son to transfer this fund out of South Africa by providing him with a good account there. If you are willing to assist him, please feel free to contact him directly on his Tel or fax numbers as 0027-83-436-3498 fax 0027-83-466-6671 or you can as well reply through this mail.

For your assistance, we will offer you 20% of the total amount, 5% will be for the refund of any expenses while 75% will be for our family. Kindly provide your direct telephone and fax numbers while replying and be informed that this is highly confidential.



Yours faithfully,



Mrs. HAGGI MAGGI








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