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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: mrsedoe <mrsedoe@indiatimes.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:50:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED
PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY
O: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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