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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Mr Patrick Addo" <p_addo2000@z6.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:38:41 +0000
Subject: urgent/assistance:from mr patrick addo.
From: Mr. Patrick Addo
Country: Liberia, West Africa.
Email: p_addo2001@z6.com
Dear: sir,
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 (Mr. Patrick Addo) from Liberia, West Africa. I write to inform you my desire to invest,
and to buy a living house in your country. I am the first son of Mr. Weah Addo; my father
was a diamond/gold merchant in my country.
My father had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way traveling out of my country with two
of my younger sister's due to present crisis that is occurring in our country (Liberia). My
sister's died on the spot while UN peacemaker, keeping force rescued my father,
and he was taken to hospital for medical treatment, which he later died. Before he died
he revealed to me and my mother about the boxes containing: 85 kilo of raw gold and
$12.5 million, (twelve million and five hundred thousand us dollars). Which he deposited
with a security company in Ghana for safekeeping. My father did not disclose any of the
content of the boxes to the security company. To avoid the officials from raising eyebrows
to the funds. Presently my mother and myself are here in Ghana to notify the security company
for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. 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 count rise, that is why we want to invest in Abroad.
For your mutual assistance, my mother and myself have agreed to offer you 25% of the total
amount of the money. We have all the vital documents covering the deposit and the ownership,
which I can send to you through fax 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.
I am waiting for your urgent and positive feedback.
Best regards,
Mr. Patrick Addo.
(For the entire family)
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