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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: "Mr Richard Wilford" <richwilf@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: richwilf2003@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:58:31 +0200
Subject: Your assistance is needed in this INVESTMENT please !!
Mr Richard Wilford
spain barcelona
Email: richwilf@zwallet.com
Tel:+346 60 52 35 91
24-09-2004
Dear friend,
I am Mr. Richard Wilford, the only son of late Chief John Wilford
from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact from the internet directory and need
an assistance from you. My sources of your contact gave me encouragement and
confidence to write you.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your
assistance to transfer our cash of (Thirty Nine Million United Stated
Dollars)
(39,000,000.00) now in the custody of the Security and trust Company here in
spain to your private account pending our arrival to your country.
SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Wilford, a native of Mende District in
the northern province of Sierra-Leone, he was the general manager of
Sierra-Leone Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father,
this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation overdraft and
minor sales. Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of
Major Paul Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping
operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal of the civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
from power by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my
little sister and myself to be evacuated to spain, with our persona effort
and the box containing the money. My father deposited the box in a private
security company here in spain for the safe custody until after the war when
he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the!
indiscriminate searching of the public and government properties by the rebels
forces, the Sierra-Leone mining corperation. was one of the targets looted and
destroyed. My father including other top government functionaries were
attacked and killed by the rebels because of the relationship with the
civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival was shattered. The untimly deaths
caused my mother heart failure and other releated complications of which she
later died in hospital after we spent a lot of money on her. Now,
my 17 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country
suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a
Security Company.
To this effect, I humbly solicit for your assistance in the following ways. To
assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-benficiary. To transfer
this money in your name to your country to make good arranagement for a
joint business investment on our behalf in your country, and make you the
careteker. Also to secure a college for my little sister and myself in your
country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our traveling
with you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most
importantly, the security company official do not know the exact content of
the box because it was decleared as family valuables. The whole document
issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I have conceded
35% of the money to your efforts assistance. Please if you are willing to assist
me and my family in this business send an e-mail to this e-mail address
( richwilf2003@netscape.net ) or ( richwilf@zwallet.com ).
Best Regards
Richard Wilford.
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