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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: ALHAJI ISMAILA GWARZO <gwarzo@lvcal.net>
Reply-To: gwarzoli@tsamail.co.za
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:24:44 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
DEAR SIR,
REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
I AM 26 YEARS OLD, SON OF ALHAJI ISMAILA GWARZO THENATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISER TO GENERAL S. ABACHA WHO WAS THE FORMER
MILITARY HEAD OF STATE OF NIGERIA WHO DIED WHILE IN OFFICE ON
MONDAY 8TH JUNE 1998. AS A RESULT OF THE SUDDEN AND TRAGIC
NATURE OF HIS DEATH, THE NEW CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATION STARTED AN
INTENSIVE CRACKDOWN ON THE FORMER OFFICIALS OF LATE GEN.
ABACHA'S REGIME ESPECIALLY MY FATHER WHO WAS HIS NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVERSER SINCE THEY WERE ABLE TO ASCERTAIN THAT A
PERCENTAGE OF OIL PROCEEDS TOTALLING US$980M(NINE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLAR ONLY) WERE DIVERTED INTO
PRIVATE BANK ACCOUNTS, AND MY FATHER BEING ONE OF THE SUSPECTS.
THIS LED TO UNDUE HARASSMENT TORTURE AND DEHUMANISATION OF MY
FATHER WHO HAS SINCE BEEN THROWN INTO DETENTION WITH ALL OUR
FAMILY TREASURES AND VALUES LOOTED INCLUDING THE ONES HE
INHERITED FROM MY GRANDFATHER. ALL HIS ACCOUNTS FOREIGN AND
LOCAL WERE FROZEN AND ALL ASSETS FORFEITED TO THE FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. SIMPLY FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT
SERVING HIS FATHER LAND BY SERVING AS THE NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER.
AS EXPECTED ALL HIS FRIEND AND ASSOCIATES INCLUDING THOSE HE
HELPED HAVE ABANDONED US TO DIE IN SUFFERING AND FRUSTRATION,
SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN DETENTION. EVEN SOME OF THEM HAVE DECIDED
TO SIT ON THE BUSINESSES HE WENT INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM.
WHILE HE WAS IN GOVERNMENT JUST BECAUSE THEY KNOW THERE IS
NOTHING HE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
RECENTLY HE CONFIDED IN ME ABOUT A SECRET DEPOSIT OF US$47M
(FORTY SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR ONLY) WHICH HE MADE IN
THE NAME OF GWARZO FAMILY TO SECURITY COMPANY BASED HERE IN
NIGERIA IN CASE OF ANY EVENTUALITIES. HE WAS ABLE TO DO THIS
THROUGH DIPLOMATIC BAGGAGE (IN OTHER TO AVOID THE INTERNATIONAL
LAW ON MONEY LAUNDRY).
DUE TO LACK OF TRUST ON FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES MY FATHER HAS
MANDATED ME TO LOOK FOR A VERY TRUST WORTHY PERSON LIKE YOU WHO
CAN ASSIST US RECEIVE, ACCOMMODATE AND SAFEGUARD THIS FUND, TO
SAVE US THE CALAMITIES OF THE PRESENT OF THE FAMILY. MY FATHER
HAS ALSO MANDATED ME TO OFFER 25% OF THE FUND TO YOU FOR YOUR
ASSISTANCE AT THIS HOUR OF NEED.
MY ENTIRE FAMILY IS IN SERIOUS FINANCIAL DISTRESS AND THIS IS
THE ONLY HOPE FOR US AS ALL OUR PASSPORTS AND TRAVEL DOCUMENTS
HAVE BEEN SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT HAVE IT IN MIND THAT THERE
ARE NO RISK INVOLVED IN THIS BUSINESS AS ONLY YOU, MY FATHER AND
I KNOW ABOUT THIS.
I WILL SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR RESPONSE THROUGH MY ABOVE
TEL/FAX NUMBER AS INDICATED ABOVE. THIS IS HIGHLY CONFIDENTAL
AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH. INCLUDE YOUR PERSONAL
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS. I AWAIT YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE.
BEST REGARDS.
MALLAM ABU GWARZO
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