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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 evelyn doe <mrsedoe@faroweb.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:00:39 +0200
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED
URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED
PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY
TO:MRS IJELE EVELYN DOE,
Email address:mrsedoe@indiatimes.com
Greetings ,
You may be surprised to receive my letter. However, I got your contact as a result of my despirate desire for assistance proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium (Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach
you through it because it still remains the fastest,
surest and most secured medium of communication.If after some days I do not receive your responds I will assume that your are not interested ,then I will have to contact another person.I have decided to contact you for confidential,urgent and rewarding joint business.
I am MRS IJELE EVELYN DOE, I am the second wife of Late Liberian President; SAMUEL DOE, who was assasinated.
My aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and honest person, who I can entrust the sum of US$22,800,000 (TWENTY TWO MILLION,EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS).
Source of the money: My late husband secured this money in a security firm, before his death without any body's consent, but recently the securty firm wrote to me that the deposit has elasped the duration and that the family should make the claims and have the deposit. Based on the condition that my entire family is now , we can not travel out of Liberia niether can we make claims on our own otherwise the government will know and confiscate the money. As a result I am asking that you help us claim the money
I will introduce you as my husband's confidant to the lawyer that will secure the lecal documents so that the money can be transferred to you pending when we are free to travel out of liberia.
If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for you,30% ,and 70% for me and my family.
I have located all the title documents to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have assess to the money.
Be assured that is risk-free and legitimate.Advise me on your position on my private Email
address:mrsedoe@indiatimes.com
Regards.
MRS IJELE EVELYN DOE
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