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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: "agnes momoh" <momohagnes1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:20:41 +0000
Subject: your understanding
FROM : AGNES MOMOH.
Freetown-Sierra Leone.
Dear, Good Day.
Please this business proposal is strictly confidential with due respect.
Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this
letter, since we have not known or met ourselves previously. Despite that
reason, please save us from this situation as I hope that this letter will
not constitute an embarrassment to you.
I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and
with this, let me introduce myself. I am Dr. Mrs. Agnes Momoh (44 yrs.), The
wife of the former head of interim government of Sierra Leone, late Major
General Joseph Momoh who died during the Sierra Leone civil disturbances. I
am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I received from my
husband younger brothers. They planned to take away all my husband treasury
and properties away from me since the unexpected death of my beloved
husband.
Meanwhile I have four lovely children for my husband before his death (a boy
and three girls). My first and only son is twenty 28 years old and by name
Samuel Momoh. I wanted to escape to the United Sates States with my children
but they conspired together and stole my international passport and other
valuable travelling documents. But luckily they did not discover where I hid
my husband’s documents file where important documents are kept. So I decided
to contact you confidentially.
They have even closed all my husband bank accounts just to put me and my
beloved children into suffery and starvation. Now I urgently need an
assistance of a reputable and trustworthy Foreigner like you to help me
receive and subsequently invest on my children’s behalf the sum of US$
10.000.000.00 (TEN MILLION DOLLARS), which my husband kept which my husband
kept in a vault before his death.
It therefore became very necessary and urgent that somebody in your foreign
position should render a helping hand to safe-guard this fund for me in safe
haven over there until my arrival in your country. It is my intention to
compensate you with 20% of the total money for your services while 5% will
be kept aside for any miscellaneous expenses incurred by both of us and
balance kept for the good of my Children in respect of some good investments
in your country or other country as you may advice me.
The fund cannot be transferred or moved out through the banks via
telegraphic transfer system because all eyes would be on me. This is the
reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be
through this email address only for confidential purposes. Giving you my
phone number will definitely expose all the
transaction as any of them may eavesdrop to our confidential conversation.
So the fund being a huge amount of money would require your help as a
reputable businessman who can invest in any foreign country outside Africa.
So to this end, I
have devised a fool-proof method of crossing this cash by defacing the
entire fund to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. And move this fund
outside the country (Sierra Leone) as a diplomatic luggage with the help of
a Courrier diplomat service-man. He will be ignorant of the actual content
of the luggage and will help to deliver it outside the country where you go
and take careful delivery of the luggage and arrange the necessary banking
formalities after normalizing the funds. With all the arrangements already
put in place, the consignment will leave the country to a security company
where it will be kept
till your arrival there to take it along with you as mentioned above. As
soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will put
things into action immediately.
In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating
your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. I will
need your private phone and fax numbers for easy and urgent communications.
This transaction will only take 14 days (two weeks) to finalise if you will
understand and co-operate with me. You also reach me with this email
address:momohagnes@yahoo.com
Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Thanking you in advance for your
understanding and co-operation.
Yours Sincerely,
(Dr.) Mrs. Agnes Momoh.
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