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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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  • sandraama777@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "SANDRA ANKOH" <sandraankoh@msn.com>
Reply-To: sandraama777@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:47:36 +0000
Subject: REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY

Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN
HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? ,Permit us to inform you of
our desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to us and
then help us out in what we are about to tell you. I'm Rose Ama (15)
and have an Elder sister Sandra (18). We are the children of Late Mr. &
Mrs. John U. Ama. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here
in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to
death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business
trip. Our mother died when we where babies. Before the death of our
father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly
called us by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of Eight
million two hundred thousand United State Dollars USD ($8,200,000.00)
deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks in
coutonou, Benin Republic.

He told us that he used my sister's name (Sandra) as the next of Kin in
depositing the money. He then strongly advised us not to seek for
assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of
his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of our
choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that willl assist us in the wise
investment of the money.We have since left the money in the bank with
the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after our
education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our
country (Cote D'Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have
already
taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts
towards the capture of the commercial center of the country,Abidjan,
where we are now. For this urgly development in this country, we have now
decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of
Coutonou to enable us leave our country before it is too late to do that.
We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real
estate management or hotel management Because of this we are honorably
seeking
your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money
into your bank account.

(2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further
our education and then settle there parmanently If you accept to stand
as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need not discuss on any
percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and
then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage, we are willing
to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance
Please tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you
As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our
proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, we will then
give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the
money into your account as we want to come over to stay with you
parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on
the transfer. You shall then be giving us information on when the
transfer will be over. We shall also send our pictures to you and shall also
need
yours too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we
beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those
that killed our Daddy are still after us. Due to our present condition
and the confidentiality of this matter we reply to us strictly on our
private email address: sandraama777@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Rose /Sandra Ama.

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