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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: "Rita Malongo" <rmalongo52@netscape.net>
Reply-To: ra_malongo@k.ro
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:35:28 +0100
Subject: From Rita Malongo
Good day,
I am the secretary to a director in Health & Welfare Negotiations, Ministry of Healh, South Africa.
My boss has directed me to solicit a potential individual/organization with a view to receive Sickle Cell Donations amounting to TWELVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS as part of a humanitarian grant scheme operated by the Ministry of Health, South Africa.
Upon indicating your interest, I will inform my boss about you and he will proceed to add and facilitate you as a beneficiary of the grant.
You will receive FORTY PERCENT of the money as your commission, while SIXTY PERCENT goes to us.
Please, treat this mail as confidential as possible as myself and my boss are still serving government officials,if you are not in a position to be part of this, do not respond to this mail and I apologize for taking your time.
Regards,
Rita Malongo.
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