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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: "MS HALIM KUSAT" <halimkusat@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:06:01 +0200
Subject: PLEASE YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED
DEAR SIR/MADAM ,
Naturally, my letter will come to you as a surprise
since we have not met, permit me however, to introduce myself. I am
Ms.HALIM KUSAT female 35 years old and a LEBANON by nationality.
I was recruited as an immigrant worker by an Arab-American, to work with him in a fiduciary agency operated by the Arab-American in Iraq.The fiduciary agency act as fiduciary agent on behalf of top Iraq officials mainly from the petroleum industry who smuggle oil out of Iraq as a result of the oil embargo placed on Iraq after the 1990 gulf war, prohibiting Iraq from oil trade, therefore the government of Iraq was only able to exchange oil for food and medicine.Unknown to many, the Iraqi officials were involved in smuggling oil and sell to buyers from Asia,Europe, the Carribean and largely from Africa. The fiduciary agency help receive payments from the buyers who as a laid down rule deposite payments in sealed security boxes and deposit with a diplomatic parcel company.
The fiduciary agency then sends a representative to the office of the
parcel company in any region in the world and receive the boxes from
the parcel company on behalf of the Iraqi officials.
This is done to prevent inter-bank transactions to
avoid monitoring by outside authorities. When the boxes are finally
brought into our office by our representative, it is my duty to open
the boxes,remove the money and inspect them before they are finally
handed over by my boss to the Iraqi officials.
Due to the recent american led war in Iraq, we at
the fiduciary agency have all abandoned office as there is fear
everywhere and heavy bombing by the millitary. My boss the
Arab-american is no where to be found, and on the third day of the war, I
received news that he was killed by some arabs while trying to escape from Iraq, his body was found lying dead in front of the agency., while
I have taken refuge with a peasant Iraqi family.
I am writing to you to solicit for your help. The
issue is that a major west african buyer of smuggled oil from the
Iraqi officials,who purchased oil some days before the war has
packaged payment in a sealed steel box [the usual way they send these
payments for the purchased oil] and deposited them with the parcel
company awaiting for my late boss to send a representative to arrive
their office and pick up the steel box, but due to the closure of the
fiduciary agency as a result of the war, and the unfortunate death of
my late boss and I am now in hidding as a refugee and I find this
as an opportunity to rececive the boxes, if you are
willing to act as a representative of our agency. I will provide you
with the necessary documents to the boxes, so that you can receive them without any hitches.Seeing the great opportunity to make good money here, I called the parcel company and asked them to delay delivery of the steel box,unitl I forward to them the name of our receiving
agent who will visit their office from outside of Iraq, but they
the parcel company informed me that the box have been put into their
bonded warehouse where it will attract demurrage, pending when the
representative arrives to pick them up and I told them that this
will be no problem,as I will send them the representative name soonest.
I have seen this as a great opportunity of making
money, you must have read or heard about the huge money made by the
Iraq leadership,they used the opportunity of the war, you can read
this through this web news below:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s848615.htm
As you can read from the above web news, the Iraq
officials saw the opportunity and used it in making huge money for
themselves,mine is much more better because the information about this
money is known only by my late boss and myself and this makes my
matter very risk free.I humbly request that you permit me to send your
name and address to the Parcel Company in Western Europe, so
that the steel box(containing the payment in total sum of
US$16,200,000.= will be received by you for safe keeping, pending when I am able to visit you as soon as the situation is better here for
travel and receive my share of the money. Your share for helping me will
be 25%.and while 5% is for expenses and 70% for me.
Upon receiving your approval, I will provide you
with all the informations on the consignment, including the
consignment code numbers, so that you will contact the parcel Company directly for confirmation.
Please, if you are willing to assist me, do forward
to me in your response the following details below, so that I can
pass this over to the parcel Company:
1. YOUR COMPLETE N AME OR COMPANY NAME
2. YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS
3. YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
I will appreciate that if you are willing to assist me on this big matter,
that you treat every aspect of this matter in strict privacy and
never reveal the content of the boxes to anyone, so that no one plans
against the boxes when they arrive your address.
Thanks, while I await your very urgent response.
Regards,
MS.HALIM KUSAT.
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