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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: "H.R.H Prince Abdul Koromah" <prince_abdulkoromah2002@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:27:08 +0700
Subject: Assallamu Alaykum!
From: H.R.H Prince Abdul Koromah
Tel: +665-0469003
E-mail: prince_abdulkoromah2002@yahoo.com
Compliments of the day!
Dear sir/ma.
Although we have not meet, I got your contact through the
internet and decided to contact you for assistance. I was,
until recently, a final year engineering student of the
University of Liberia- West Africa. The rebels in my country
struck our township and killed my parents in one of their
attacks. My late father, King Abdul Koromah, being the
King of the Town was a prime target.
Fortunately for me, I was in school when the attack took
place. I equally lost my only sister to the rebels. When I
got home for the remains of my parents and the
subsequent burial that followed, I discovered a document
indicating that my late father had deposited some $7.5M.
United States Dollars (Seven Million Five Hundred
thousand United State Dollars) with one of the security
company here in Bangkok-Thailand.
This money, according to the docement, was deposited
as family treasure and the people in the security company
does not know that the content of the box is cash,and also
according to the document, the money was meant for the
building of an Auto repair company for me by my late
father,when I complete my studies.
Upon the discovery of this document, I travelled to
Bangkok-Thailand to trace the concerned security
company and to make claims for the said money as the
only surviving next of kin to my father. But deliberatley, I
have decided to keep all my uncles and Aunts out of the
issue as none of them will be happy to know I am in
possession of such money. I have succeded in tracing the
security company in Bangkok, and all the documents
relating to the deposition of the fund to the security
company are with me.
You are also free to see them if need be. I have decided
to contact you to seek your assistance in helping me to
take it out from the security company and transfer it to your
account and help me to come to your country to continue
my education and so that you will help me to get the
money invested until such a time that I will be ready to
begin to use it.
I am really desperate as I am left alone now in the world.
Let me know what you want as compensation for helping
me to solve this my problem. Most importantly , I seriously
appeal that you maintain high level of secrecy and
confidentiality in the whole thing.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Best Regards,
H.R.H Prince Abdul koromah Jr.
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