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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: "FRANCO ARISTIDE" <frnn_72@msn.com>
Reply-To: frnn_72@ommail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:15:56 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION.
Hello,
My mail may seem a little confusing considering the fact that we have not
met each other before. Please understand that this is the only means through
which i can get in touch with you, as i wish to discuss something very
personal.
My name is Franco Aristide, i am the brother to the past President of Haiti,
(Jean Bertrand Aristide) who is presently on exile. Some months ago in the
year 2004, my brother's political opponents in our country, master-minded
and led a revolution to overthrow my brother's regime. There was so much
violence and killings during that time, with various attempt to kill my
brother and member of his family. Fortunately for us we managed to escape
out of the country. I left the country with some members of my family
through the atlantic ocean with a ship that headed towards Mauritania. I
was lucky to escape from the violence in Haiti with my wife and children and
a few other family members.
Before their attack, i had the vision that there would be a political unrest
in the country would get out of hand, so i then acted fast to sell out a few
of my propeties that i could sell out as at that time. I gathered all the
money that i had in my possession which amounted to a total of ($47 million
and some fractions in US dollars). I was not able to transfer or move the
money out of the country because of the unrest and instability that was
everywhere, so i alternatively coded and packaged all the money to a safer
place in the city of Port-de-Piax, where i hid it in a very safe place and
since then the money has been safe there, nobody is aware of the existence
of this money. It was from the city Port-de-Piax that i was able to leave
the country with my wife, children and some other lucky members of our
family.
I need your assistance and cooperation to help me receive and keep this
money safe, because i am now making perfect arrangments to move this money
out of my country Haiti to your country for safe keeping and future
investments. So i need you to assist me recieve the money when it arrives
its destination country. I need to invest this money in any good type of
business that you can assist me with and equally start a quite and new life
in your country. This money is all i have left to revive my family. My
entire family have been set back as a result of the past and so i
despirately need to start planning their future again. Please do let me know
if you can work with me, so that i can give you more details on my
arrangements. I urgently await your e-mail.
Best Regards
FRANCO ARISTIDE
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