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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: "Kwame Ashantee" <ashantee_kwame@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:19:32 +0000
Subject: Very important & Urgent
Attn: The General Director
Dear Sir,
I know that my letter will come to you as a surprise. However, It is my profound pleasure to write you this letter that deserves your urgent attention for our mutual benefit. Therefore, at any position or condition of things, I plead you to put It uttermost into consideration.
With due respect and honour, I am writing you this letter from a sincere mind of honest. I am Kwame Ashantee, the first son of the late Dr. William Ashantee, who was the Corporate Affairs Manager of Ghana Gold and Diamond Mining Corporation, who died in 1989 in Dakar (Sénégal) after such long politic asilum.
Before my father’s death, his properties were mortgaged by the current regime in place. Last month, I received a notification letter from my late father’s (May his soul rests in a perfect peace) Attorney; he informed me that my deceased father had left with him an envelope under sealed that he should put back hand to me after my university studies . In this envelope, there is a letter in which my deceased father informs me that I am a beneficiary of a Metal Crate which contains a sum of Forty Million USD ( U.S$40M), that he deposited with a Security and Finance Firm in Republic of Togo (Western Africa). He went further to advise me that the contents of the crate is not fully disclosed to the Security and Finance Firm keeping custody of the Crate, as it was declared as family valuables and artefacts. More importantly, he added that under no circumstances I should disclose confidence neither to his Attorney nor to any relevant body.
Moreover, he added that he hid this money to put me under cover in case of problems because he had a revelation that he was going to be betrays by close relations.
In this letter, he gave me the phone number of a person that I should contact once in ownership of the documents that the Attorney was going to put back hand to me so that this person can help me to transfer this money and invest in a good investment outside Africa; quite unfortunately I tried this contact but this number does not work any more. I am desperate that is the reason why I seek your assistance. I am at present in Togo for this affair. It is extremely important for me to finalise the necessary formalities required for the clearance of the Crate soonest, because the time which it was necessary that the Security Firm should be the custodian of the consignment is expired. If I do not remove it now, I should take the expenses of guarding in account while I am no longer buoyant (financially) to offset any demurrage.
If you are willing to render the necessary assistance required to transfer this sum I would forward you with the certificate of deposit and the receipt of payment given to my father prior the deposit in order to prove my seriousness. To enhance a smooth atmosphere, I am giving you 20% of the total sum, 25% of the total sum will be kept for me in a personal and secured bank account. 50% of the total sum will be for joint-investment in an area you may find better in your country and also you will be the overseer. While the remaining 5% of the total sum will be mapped out for any expenses we might incurred in the course of the transaction.
Finally, I wish you treat this assignment with the highest confidentiality in order to protect all interest.
Thanks & may God bless.
Anxiously waiting for your speedy response.
Yours truly
Kwame Ashantee
Phone: 002289167686
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