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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: "Mr Collins Mark" <mr.collinsmark_02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:57:04 +0100
Subject: Greetings.
Greetings.
This letter might come to you as a surprise as we have not
met before,but I believe that you would be compelled to help
me after going through the contents of this letter. My name
is Mr Collins Mark, a divorce, I am a Zimbabwean. I am a
farmer in Zimbabwe. Basically, I was involved in
Agricultural production, until August (2003), when the
government of Robert Mugabe decided to seize all
farm-land(s) owned by whites in Zimbabwe (without
compensation). He (Robert Mugabe) did not stop at that he
also went on to expel all White farmers in Zimbabwe.
He implored the services of his war veterans to undertake
his seizure.The war veterans have been accused (correctly)
of being behind the violent occupation of white-owned
commercial farms in which an estimated 70,000 farm workers
have been displaced. At least,over hundreds white farmers
and black settlers have been killed since the farm invasion
began in February 2000
Link{www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,536901,00.html}Although
we know that we are taking a great risk by staying here in
Zimbabwe. At the Moment, our phone lines are bugged, and all
our movements are being monitored by Zimbabwean (Robert
Mugabe's)secret Police.
Therefore email is the safest means of communication for
now. We have taken our case to the United Nations and even
with the threats of transactions and the subsequent
sanctions from the West against the Zimbabwean authorities,
Robert Mugabe still remains adamant. He is insisting that
our farm land (some of which we bought with our money and
most of which We inherited from our fathers) belongs to the
(his) government of Zimbabwe. Since I could not keep the
money in Zimbabwe, I used the services of a Diplomatic
Courier Company to move this money (registered as official
documents) out of Zimbabwe to Abroad. At present, my money
totaling US$17,750,000(seventeen million,seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
The fund is in oversea and hopefully it would be paid into
an offshore account. Can you help me? Are you trustworthy?
Can you handle this money? Are you capable of handling this
money? If you can, please contact me All you need to do is
to claim this money from the Courier Company. For your
assistance, you will be entitled to 25% of the total sum.
You are also obliged to help/advise on the proper and most
convenient way of investing this money in your country,
hopefully, You will consider this request and respond
positively.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Collins Mark
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