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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: "BELINDA AKAMOS" <belindaakamos02@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:42:24 +0100
Subject: let me hear from you
Good day Sir/Madam,
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction and i pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine
approval considering the facts we have not known each other before, I wish
to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Belinda Akamos from
Sierra-leome West Africa .
I write to inform you my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your
country. I am 19 years old and the second daughter of Mr. Richard Akamos my
father before his death was a king in saguratu village in my country. My
late father was shot by the rebels on his way traveling to Lucia a city
after Freetown the capital along with my elder brother. My brother died on
the spot while U.N.peace keeping force rescued my father, he was taken to
hospital for medical treatment which he later died after three months.
Before he died he revealed to me and my sister about his physical money
amounted to $14.5 million us dollars. Which he deposited in a security
company here in Ghana for safekeeping. Presently I and my sister are here in
Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in
the refuge camp. when we got to the company we where told that my father
made an agreement with them that they should not release the funds to any of
his family member without a foreign partner, that is why my sister and i are
seeking for your assistance.
Therefore I want you to lecture me on how best we can invest this money,
because my father told me that it is dangerous to invest this money in
Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with
economic and political instability facing African countries, that is why we
want to invest in abroad. For your mutual assistance, myself and my sister
have agreed to offer you 25% of the total amount of the money.
We have all the vital documents covering the deposited money in the security
company and the ownership which i can send to you through fax/mail on
request. NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so
you have to keep this transaction as a top secret to yourself alone. Which I
will want you to forward across to me your direct tel/fax number for more
information's about this transaction?
Best regards,
Belinda Akamos
(for the entire family)
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