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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: "Christopher Srtevenson" <christeve011@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:51:36 -0700
Subject: Beneficiary Notification.
The Beneficiary,
Estate of Engr. Jonathan Reed.
FINAL NOTIFICATION
Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous hardcopy
letters have been sent through your mailing address but we did not get
any response from you. Not to worry, because even if it was intercepted
in the course of postage, no execution will be carried out without the
endorsement of Rev. Father David Mark and me the attorney for the
execution.
On-behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late of Sir Engr.
Jonathan Reed (ksm), I wish to notify you that you will listed as a
beneficiary to the bequest of the sum of US$6,000.000.00 [Six Million
US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. The late
Sir Jonathan Reed until his death was a former Managing Director and
pioneer staff of a big construction company in China an later invested
in poultry farm and grains. He established himself as a wealthy farmer
in Asia where he exported rice and other poultry products. He was a very
dedicated man and a great philanthropist during his life time. He
involved himself in helping people by giving investable loans in
agriculture and other ventures.
Late Sir Jonathan Reed died on 9th October 2004 at the age of 78. He has
since been buried on the 23rd of October 2004. He was an American lived
in Asia all through his active years but later move down to London due
to long term illness where he died in a specialist hospital. He was
married but without a child an lost his wife in 1986 due to breast
cancer. He said in his words as stated in his last testament that "it is
my desired wish to see that the poor and less privileged are given
assistance by any means and limit this token could go, especially Asia,
Africa and South America having seen it all myself. He therefore advised
that this amount be invested and the part of the proceeds be used in the
work of humanity".
I hereby request that you forward your current telephone for further
discussion and your forwarding address to enable us file necessary
documents of claims at probate registry for the release of this funds to
you.
Please inform me if you did receive this notification this time via:
christeve011@london.com,christeve_47@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Christopher Stevenson (llb.Lon)
Estate of Reed
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