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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: mariaobiang@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:06:16 -0800
Subject: From Mrs. Maria Obiang
From: Mrs. Maria Obiang
Phone: +27 78 267 1213
WE NEED YOUR URGENT HELP
ATT: Sir/ Madam,
It was a shock that has not left my memories till date how my late husband Mr Armengol Obiang the brother of Mr. Teodora Obiang the President of Equatorial Guinea was arrested and detained by the present government of Equatorial Guinea for being mentioned as a major sponsor in the fail coup plot led by a South African Mercenary Nick du Toit on march last two years 2004.
On the 25th April 2004 at 5am my husband a prominent businessman was taken away from us by a group of uniformed men. During our visit to him in his detention, he told us that he knew about the alleged coup plan but did not pledged his sponsorship yet until the day of his arrest. All the detainees were ill treated and are still undergoing such even now. The President Mr.Teodoro Nguema Obiang has done nothing about it.
On the 1st of October 2004, I was refused of seeing my husband. At this point, I had to consult the attention of our family lawyer who intervened and further revealed that my husband has died, the government suppressed the news and our query about the cause of his death was never answered. At this point it was not safe for us to keep residing in the country graciously with the help of our family lawyer most of our family properties and business were retrieved back from the government. They were as followings: [milling company, Maswan Royal estate, Guinea printing press, mechanized farm, franchise and landed properties] my family agreed on selling them before our departure. A sum of US$ 17 million was realized.
A high government official who was a good family friend to us arranged an emergency exit to South Africa where we presently reside as asylum seekers.
The fund was in a diplomatic suitcase. And due to the fact that as refugees, we are restricted to many facilities in the country of South Africa like banking and financing. I had to keep the consignment under the custody of a security company here in South Africa.
My dear, I need an honest person who would help me transfer the fund into a foreign account, as I am not allowed to operate a bank account as refugee. After the fund is transferred into your bank account my family shall come over to where ever the transfer is done to begin a new life. We have agreed that 25% of the total sum shall be given to anyone who would help us in this transaction and 5% will be used to settle every expense that was incurred during the course of the transfer.
The following conditions must be noted:
The person needed:
a. Must not be a minor
b. Legal in the country he/she resides
c. He/ She must have a prove of his / her legality.
NB: All the parties must keep a prove of their expenditures for reimbursement immediately the fund is transferred. We would like you to do feasibility studies on how and which area in your country we could invest our part of fund as soon as we arrive into your country.
Please call me or my son Charles on our phone +27-78-267-1213 for more information's regarding this transaction and do send me your phone number fro easier communications.
Yours faithfully,
Madam Maria Obiang
(For the Family)
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