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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: "Mr Roy Taylor" <roytaylor11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:47:43 +0200
Subject: URGENT PLEASE REPLY ASAP
Dear Sir/Madam,
With due respect, trust and humility I write you this proposal, which I believe will be of great interest to you. This proposal is necessitated by my urgent need to reach a dependable and trustworthy foreign partner.
I am Mr. Roy Taylor, son of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor. My father has been accused by the United Nations for improper governing and was indicted in June 2003 by a U.N.-backed war crimes court in neighboring Sierra Leone on charges for arms dealing and diamond trafficking. For the past three years, rebels of the group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy have been attacking Liberian government forces in an attempt to oust my father out of office. The insurgents and their allies hold about 60 percent of our country. As a result, these evil rebels finally succeeded in forcing my father and the members of his cabinet out of office.
.During my father’s government, he got enriched and accumulated a lot of wealth for himself, mostly from ‘Diamond deals’ he did with the then Sierra Leone President. Most of these funds were lodged in bank accounts across Europe and America, while part of the funds and Diamonds were deposited in a security vault in Monrovia. On 6th July 2003, my father accepted an offer of asylum from Nigeria's president, and on 11th August 2003, he stepped down as president, handed over power to Vice President Moses Blah and left for Calabar –Nigeria.
During this political uproar, we managed to stalk away two trunk boxes with cash worth the sum of forty million US Dollars ($40,000,000.00). With the help of top government officials loyal to my father, the consignment was disguised as diplomatic baggage and shipped to the United Kingdom. The consignment was further deposited with a reputable Security Company in London. Be informed that the real content of this box was not disclosed to the security company!
In the course of events, I managed to escape to the United Kingdom as an asylum seeker, which is where I am contacting you from. We want you to assist us claim this box from the security company and have the money deposited into your private account in your country, where it will be used for investment purposes. Bearing in mind that your assistance is needed to transfer this fund, we will reward you with 30% of the total sum for your expected services and assistance. We also want to assure you that this business is totally risk free and only I, you and my father are the potential parties involved in this transaction.
For the interest of this business, do not hesitate to contact me with this email: roytaylor55@fastermail.com, to enable us to proceed with this transaction.
Thanks in anticipation.
Roy Taylor.
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