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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: "DAVID TAYLOR" <sdavies2000@tiscali.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: david_taylor@fastermail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:35:40 +0100
Subject: ( )
Dear prospective partner,
I know my message will come to you as a surprise, but please don't worry as I have thought about this very deeply before getting in touch with you. I am writing you because of my difficulty in acquiring and investing a sum of $25m USD (Twenty Five million US Dollars) on behalf of my father
I am Mr. David Taylor, the first son of the former President of Liberia, who is now in exile with my mother and other family members. My father, President CHARLES TAYLOR got his money through the sales of diamonds when he was the President of our country Liberia.
Following the political crisis in my country and my father subsequently leaving office, we had to flee leave our country to Abidjan the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire for the sake of our lives. It is here in Abidjan that my father gave me the authority to retrieve the money which he has kept in safety in a security company in London.
I am presently in London now and was lucky to know the said money exist and is been kept in the secured vault of a security company here in London called DELTA CONTINENTAL SECURITY SERVICES. It is here that my father deposited this money in the name of a foreigner as business partner and beneficiary of the money for security and safety reason.
The assistance that I require from you is to stand as my father foreign business partner and beneficiary to this fund. The partner’s name my father used in depositing the fund was a fictitious and non existing name, which can be changed in the terms of the deposit agreement.
I now plead to you to please allow me the use of your name for the transfer of the money from the bank here, into the account that you may nominate for the transaction, as my father’s foreign business partner, for investment in your country.
I have asked for your assistance with an open heart and for the reason that the security company said I will need to pay some administrative and security charges since they have been keeping it for years. The said amount is what I can’t pay because I don’t have it. But I assure you that if you can assist me both in standing as my father foreign partner and financially. I will give you 40% of the total money.
Please remember to keep this transaction confidential for security proposes. If you agree to assist me to achieve this, as soon as I hear from you concerning this matter, I will give you other information concerning this transaction. For the benefit of truth and trust I am willing to send to you the deposit slip and other documents given to me by my father, so as to make it easy for you. This transaction will not take more than 10 working days. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated. You can contact me via my private email address david_taylor@fastermail.com .I will give you further details/instructions as soon as I hear from you.
Yours Sincerely,
DAVID TAYLOR
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