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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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• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mensahrose@freeghana.com

Fraud email example:

From: "rose mensah" <godwithme@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:11:56 +0000
Subject: how is your family today.

Dearest Loved One,

How are you today and your family over there. i got your contact over the
the internet in my search for assistance. i do not want anybody known to me
or my family to be associated with this i want you to note that this will
benefit both of us i am seeking for your assistance in my desire to secure
the sum of $ 19.5M USD.
My name is Mrs. Rose Mensah,and I am living with AIDS .Ever since my
husband,Hon.Kofi MENSAH,the former member of the parliament of my Country
Ghana who died of AIDS and I was tested positive of the AIDS virus, the mass
media wouldn’t just let me and my family be. My only Son Emmanuel has
stopped going to school in respect of his negative test because he could no
longer stand the humiliations from fellow students. The embarrassments are
getting on my nerves but what can I do? I would have loved to travel out of
the country to a place where I will have peace and spend the rest of my life
with my only Son but I couldn’t make it for I am weak and severely
sick.Moreover,no Embassy would grant me Visa to any country with my hairs
withering and boils all over my body. This is the reason why I am doing my
possible best to see that my only son Emmanuel J.Mensah who is 18years old
and was tested negative should go out of the nation with his late father’s
family inheritance of $19.5m USD.

From all indications, I know that my days are numbered.
In the light of the above, I have contacted you to assist me to transfer out
of Ghana the SUM OF $19.5 MILLION U.S DOLLARS which my husband deposited as
[DIAMOND/GOLD] with a safety company for the up-keep of my only Son who will
be coming over to your country in due course to live and school and have a
better life as I do. Not as him to live a reckless life like his late father
lived.
YOU WILL INVEST THIS FUND FOR MY ONLY SON IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE OR ANY
LUCRATIVE PROFITABLE BUSINESS OF YOUR CHOICE.
For your effort, I am prepared to give you 10% of the total funds.
I am looking forward to hearing from you while thanking you for
your anticipated cooperation in this regard. Or through this email
mensahrose@freeghana.com
yours lovely
Rose Mensah.

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