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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: "fsarahjohnson27 Gazeta.pl" <fsarahjohnson27@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: fsarahjohnson@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:26:42 +0000
Subject: From Frank and Sarah Johnson:
Dearest One,
We are delighted to write you.We are sorry if this mail will come to you as
a surprise but we are contacting you for a business investment in your
country .
I am Frank and my sister Sarah Johnson from Ivory Coast and we are
contacting you because we need your help in the management of a large sum of
money that
our late father Late Chief Adam Johnson intended to use for an investment
overseas before his death.
The amount is 6.2 Million USD,deposited in a bank here in Abidjan.Its such a
large amount that we dont even know where to start from due to our age and
condition here.We lost our mother long time ago during child birth and ever
since then,we have been with our father until his death as the first
child.Our
Late father was a very rich Cocoa farmer and he was poisoned by his business
colleauges.Now we want you to stand as our guidian and appointed beneficiary
to
help us see that this fund is transfered to your account in your country
since i am just 23 and my younger sister Sarah is 20years and we are
orphans.we are
not safe here because of the political crisis going on here for some time
now and because of our uncle's too, We are also afraid our late fathers
colleagues
might come after us.We are presently in the assylum camp because our house
was set on fire during one of the political problems here which rendered us
homeless.
Please permit me to ask you few questions:
1. Can we completely trust you?
2. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you
after the money is transfer to your country?
3.Can you help us to come over to your country and further our educational
carrier?
4.Can you asure us of the confidentiality of this transaction,So that when
coming into your country there would not be focus of attention.
5.Your full name.
6.Your residential house address.
7.Your direct mobile number.
8.Your age and marital status.
9.Your Nationality
Please we will like you to reply us as soon as you recieve this email so
that we can give you more detailed information.we have the agreement
certificate
that our late father had with the bank when he deposited this fund.In our
next email,we will send you a copy of our picture so that you will know the
people
you are about to help.
Please,we will kindly plead with you to keep this transaction very
confidential till this fund gets to your account and we are assuring you
that there is no
risk involved.We Thank you so much for your expected co-operation
My regards,
Frank and Sarah Johnson
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