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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: "edward asare" <asareeddy@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:45:34 +0000
Subject: Business Assistance.
Good day,
I am Mr. Edward Asare, the only son of late Chief John Asare, from
Sierra-Leone. I got your contact from the Internet directory and need an
assistance from you. My sources of your contact gave me encourage and
confidence to write on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence
primarily to seek for your assistance to transfer our cash of (Thirty Six
Million United Stated Dollars) (36,000,000.00) now in the custody of the
Security and trust Company here in Ghana to your private account pending our
arrival to your country. SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Asare, a native of Mende District in the northern
province of Sierra-Leone, was the general manager of Sierra-Leone Mining
Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money was the
income accrued from mining co-operation over draft and inor sales. Before
the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Korormah
and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost
destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the
civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had
already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and
myself to be evacuated to Ghana, with our personal effort and the box
containing the money. My father deposited the box in a private security
company here in Ghana for the safe custody until after the war when he will
join us. During the war in my country, and following the! Indiscriminate
looking of the public and government by the rebels forces, the Sierra-Leone
mining coop. was one of the targets looted and destroyed.
My father including other top government functionaries were attacked and
killed by the rebels because of the relationship with the civilian president
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival. The untimely deaths
caused mother heart failure and other related complications of which she
later died in hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her. Now,
my 17 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country
suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a
Security Company.
To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways. To
assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-beneficiary. To
transfer this money in your name to your country To make good arrangement
for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, the
caretaker. To secure a college for my little sister and myself in your
country to further our education And to take arrangement for our travel with
you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most important,
the security company official does not know the exact content of the box
because it was declared as family valuables to avoid over demurrage. The
whole document issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I
have conceded 15% of the money to your efforts assistance.
Looking forward for your response.
Best Regards
Edward Asare.
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