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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "RICHARD DAVID" <UNofic@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: UNoffice@katamail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:39:33 +0200
Subject: FROM REVD.FR RICHARD DAVID
FROM OFFICE OF REVD.FR RICHARD DAVID
DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES,UNITED NATIONS
ORGANISATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND WORLD
BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
DAKAR,SENEGAL.
TEL: +221 4488469.
EMAIL:revricharddavid@katamail.com
Dear Friend.
I am Rev. Fr. Richard David, staff with the World Bank fact finding &
special duties office. I am writing you this letter based on the fact that
cool penny is better than millions of dollars means it's better for one to
live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.
I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organisation and have arranged
with an officer in the computer section in person of Engineer joseph Cliff to
bring out part of your total pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371)
amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is because according to
information gathered from the Bank’s/security computer, you have been waiting
for a long time to receive this payment without success.
As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in
respect of your pending payment. The problem we feel you are having is that of
interest groups. A lot of people are interested in your payment and those
people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive
different kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people
everyday.
Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been
extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your
money. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do away with
those officers. For security reasons you do not have to tell anybody that your
have your payment on the way until the payment gets to you.
The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. In
order to get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday went to this
four courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make arrangements on how to
get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no avail the above courier
companies all made us to understand that they will have to open the box for
inspection by the customs before shipment.
This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded with
synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you will
meet the button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no
way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it was padded
with machine.
We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and when
open will spoil the materials. <N:B> we did not declare money because courier
does not carry money.Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me
that there is a security courier service company that is specialised in
sending diplomatic materials and information from one country to another,
which also has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as this cannot be
checked by any customs anywhere in the world.
I have therefore met the official of the security courier service and
concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as
I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who will be bring in this consignment
to you is an expact and has been in this line of work for many years now so we
have Notting to worry about.
After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred
Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organisation I
designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send to
us a promissory note for the donation along with your address where you will
like the box to be delivered to by courier.
Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out
that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not inform anyone
about this until you received your money. Am helping you on this because
something in me is tells me that you are an honest person. When you conclude
this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your
money to you.
May God be with you as i wait for your response either through Fax or Email:
Feel free to call me if you will like us to discuses more on this FAX/TEL:
+221 4183317.
Yours Faithfully
Revd. Fr. Richard David
Director, Special Duties. UNO/WBF.
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