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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: "Mary Kobe" <marykobe001@msn.com>
Reply-To: marykobe555@88.am
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:11:11 +0000
Subject: Attn: Dearly Beloved
Attn: Dearly Beloved,
This communication to you is strictly confidential, with due respect.
Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this
letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously.Despite
that, I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of
it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Mary Kobe,the wife of late
Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER [West African
peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom
and traditional norms. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in
the hands of my late husband's family, simply because I did
not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my late husband. By
tradition,all that my late husband had!, [wealth] belongs to his
brothers/family. And myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken all that I suffered with
my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular
seized by them. I wanted to escape to the United State of America [USA} with
my children on exile,
but again they conspired and stole my international passport and other
traveling document to further frustrate me. Thank God, two weeks ago, I
received Key Text Code [KTC} from a security & Finance Company abroad, that
my late husband maintains a saftey deposit box of high value with this
company and i am the next of kin sotherefore i should make necessary
arrangements to come for the claim of the box.It has therefore, become very
necessary and urgent to contact someone,a foreigner like you to help me
receive/secure the consignment while we i and my children find a way of
getting out to meet with you in your country.
The consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE" with the
Security Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had
several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the
security company, who has expressed willingness to help me on meeting the
company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my children
and I, receive/secure the safety box on our behalf. But, you would need to
give me sufficient assurance that if you help me,you would not divert its
contents which i will reveal to you as this is an information known only to
me and no one else.My children and I have resolved to give you a certain
percentage for your honest assistance to us and i shall open up to you as i
have to be careful for this is the only way i and my children stand to live
better lives. This is all my children and I have got to live on.
Please! , I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your
private phone / mobile No and also your fax no for easier
communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code) for the box are
safely kept with me which I will give you as soon as you express desire to
help me.
Stay blessed.
MRS.MARY KOBE.
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