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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: Miss Mary George <ms_marygeorge77@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: ms_marygeorge@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:37:26 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Miss Mary George
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your contact details via a concerted web search. Please pardon me for this act of invasion of your privacy. I had no alternative but to approach you in this manner because of the urgency of the issue at
hand. Time is of utmost importance and I am desperately looking for someone to assist me in this confidential, lucrative but risk-free business. when I got your contact information, I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given
to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am Miss Mary George the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Robert George. My father was a very wealthy Cocoa merchant in Abidjan; the economic capital of Ivory Coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when I
was a baby and since then my father took me so special.
Before the death of my father on November 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Ten million Five Hundred United States Dollars which he deposited in a suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan Cote
d'Ivoire that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing the money in the account. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I
will transfer the fund into for investment purposes.
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 18 years old.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my Education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Moreover, I am willing to offer you commissions of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated bank account in your country.
I will like you to indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within a shortest period so that I will come over to your country. I look forward to your further word with interest. Take care and remain blessed.
Please, do not hesitate to contact me with my email address for further details.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Mary George
ms_marygeorge@yahoo.co.jp
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