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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: "MRS JOY KOBE" <joyce_maxwell_kobe@centrum.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: joy_kobe@fxsmails.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:28:11 +0100
Subject: Plea For Help
PRESIDENT & C.E.O
ATTN: SIR
This business proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due respect. Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress may have receiving this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. joy Kobe, the wife of late
Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force
in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil disturbance [War].
My three
daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious
custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in
the hands of my late husband's family, simply because
I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my
late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And
myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken
all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including treasures, houses and his bank particular
seized by them. I wanted to escape to the United State
of America [USA} with my children on exile, but again
they conspired and stole my international passport and
other traveling document to further frustrate me.
Two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code
from a Security Company abroad, that my late husband deposited U.S
$25.5 Million cash
with this company. It has
therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone, a
foreigner like you
to help me receive/secure these
funds overseas in a reliable bank Account (presumably an empty Bank
Account, if
available) and to help invest it on our
behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with
you in your country.
These funds are kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE"
with the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure
or diversion. I have had several telephone discussions
with the Assistant Director of the security company,
who has express willingness to help me on meeting the
company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my
children and I,
receive these funds on our behalf.
But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help
me, you would
not divert the funds. My children and
I have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum. This is all my
children and I have
got to live on.
Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope
you will not disappoint me. I look forward to your
urgent response, including your private phone / mobile
No and also your fax no for easier communication.
Stay blessed.
JOY KOBE.
NB:please reply to my alternate email address for
confidentiality:-joy_kobe@fxsmails.com.
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