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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: "PAULA LITANA" <paula_litana@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: paula_litana1@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:01:52 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
Dear ; Friend,
First, I must apologize if my mode of first contact is not acceptable to you and also solicit your
confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly private and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried
My Name is Paula Litana,I am the only dauther of late Mr. and Mrs Fred Nzinga Litana who was assisinated in
2002 during a political unrest that engulfed my Country Zambia recently. They where shot to dead my
unknown Person(s) who where accusing him of funding and sponsoring a factional Political group with his
money. So in respect of this they came to our House and shot everyone dead including my two younger
Siblings by then I was not at home,But fortunately my Father did not die instantly that day. It took him
three Months later after that incident before he finally gave up the ghost.
Before the death of my father, on October 28, 2002, in a private hospital, he secretly called me on his
bedside and told me that he has the sum of fifteen million, five hundred thousand United
States(US$15.5Million dollars he deposited it in a Finance and Security company here Dakar Senegal. with
my name as next of kin to the fund.
Now, after the recent crisis that burst up in my Country I ran to Senegal where my father deposited the
fund and seeked asylum, that is how I now went to stay in the United States Refugee Camp. So that is where am
currently staying for now. But the problem am encoutering now is that when I went to the Financial
holding company to withdraw the money. I was made to understand that with my status as a refugee I can not
be able to clear the fund,but can do so with the help of a forieng partner. They told me that the local law
hear does not Permit a refugee to operate any business atall, nor transact a fund of such magnitude.
So please dear, I am pleading, if ou can help me and stand as my nominated next-of-kin and withdraw the
fund for me (USS15.5 Million Dollars) to your account in your Coutry and I will be very glad to
Please once can help me with this project, I will offer 15% percent of themoney then after I will
come over to your Country to start up a new life. And also go into any profitable business you will advise
me to do.
Please you can reply me with this alternate email address as it is the most confidential for me at the
moment:paula_litana1@yahoo.ca
I will be waiting to hear your favourable response.
Sincerely,
paula Litana
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