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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: "Alex Smith" <info-as02003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mralex_smith@portugalmail.pt
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:58:26 -0800
Subject: COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME.
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Alex Smith a personal accountant to one Dr. Jonathan Mann, who died
with his family in Swissair accident in 1998. The webpage below will tells
you more about my client:
http://www.cnn.com/health/9809/03/dr.mann.profile
My purpose of contacting you is to ask for your aid in partnership to
repatriate the sum of us$30 million that belongs to my client in a
domiciliary bank account here in United Kingdom.
As soon as i heard from you, i will give you the details/ operational method
on how to repatriate the said THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS into your
bank account for our mutual benefit. While replying, include your phone
number and fax for voice communications.
I realy need this money for my wife kidney transplanting operation which
involve huge amount of money.Please help me to get the money out from
barclays bank.
Reply back through mralex_smith@portugalmail.pt
Truly yours,
Alex Smith
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