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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: "Fatou B Konan" <fatoubkonan@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: fatoubkonan3@box.az
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:59:01 -0700
Subject: URGENT REPLY FROM FATOU B KONAN
From :Fatou Konan Bedie
Dear Sir,
I hope this mail will not come to you as a
surprise. My family got your contact through
yourcountry's representative at the International
Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C). We decided to contact you
for a mutual business relationship.
My name is Fatou Konan Bedie. I am the son of His Excellency Henri
Konan Bedie, who was the President of Cote D'Ivoire from
1993 to 24th Dec. 1999 when the military junta led by
Gen. Robert Guei toppled his Government. When my
father's Government was toppled, my entire familywas
driven into exile. While my parents lived in
France,I lived with my siblings in London. However, through an
amnesty granted to my father by the incumbent
president, Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, my father returned back
from exile in France on 15th Oct 2001.
Meanwhile,when my father was in power, I was working
as his special aid and was coordinating his private
businesses in Africa and abroad. We had many deposit
accounts with different financial institutions in
Europe.Unfortunately for my family, the military
Government of Gen. Robert Guei that toppled my
father's Government got wind of some of the deposit
account s and in a swift action frozen 11 (eleven)of
the accounts in 9 (nine) banks in Switzerland and
Luxembourg. The effect of this and ousting frompower
of my father within a very short period of time
wasdevastating to my family.
All the while my family has been on exile,we
have lived under very critical financial
conditions with absolute resolve not to do
anything that can led the present Government
in my country to this remaining account which
the military did not discover. Now that my
father, His Excellency Henri Konan Bedie is back
home and the searchlight of Government has moved away
from my family, we have decided to make moved to
change the identity of the account.
This is the reason why we decided to contact you.
I have the mandate of my father to contact you and
request for your assistance to my family, by helping
us to secure this remaining deposit we have with a
financial institution in Europe, which amounts to
U.S.$15 million (Fifteen million U.S. Dollar). This
aimed at making it impossible for the Government
in my country to know about this fund.
My family will be pleased if you can accept
to hold this fund in safe keeping by receiving
it from the financialinstitution on our behalf
and by accepting to change the name and
signatory of the account into your own.
This will eliminate any link between my
family's name and this fund and permanently
keep it from the knowledge of my country.
I will furnish you with details of this transaction if
you accept to assist. We will discuss
your remuneration when you
I look forward to your early response.
Best regards,
Fatou Konan Bedie.
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