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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: "DAVID PRATT" <david_pratt101@rediffmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: david_pratt@mail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:09:00 -0700
Subject: PARTNERSHIP
DAVID PRATT
Phone: 233 244 824201
E-mail: david_pratt@mail.com
Dear,
I do hope this letter will not come to you as a surprise; it was born out of my desire to share a business relationsh
ip with you. My name is David Pratt, 37yrs, a Ghana national, married with a wife and two children. I work as an
Assistant Administrative Manager with STANDARD SECURITY AND SERVICES LTD. Accra, Ghana. I got the
information concerning you from the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and after due consultation with my spiritual
adviser, I decided to contact you in believing that by the grace of God, you will accept to be my partner in this business.
I earn a salary of C1.6M (200 USD equivalent) monthly. I joined the services of this company in 1991 as an
office assistant. I have been working with this company for over 12years. Within this period I have watched with
meticulous precision how African Heads of States and government functionaries have been using STANDARD
SECURITIES to move huge sums of money USD, Pound sterling, French France (then) to their foreign partners.
They bring in these consignments of money cash and secretly declare the contents as jewelries, gold, diamond,
precious stones, family treasure, documents etc. Among them were Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire/ Foday Sankoh
of Siera Leone,etc.
All these people have hundreds of consignments deposited with STANDARD SECURITIES.Their foreign
partners, friends and relatives, are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed
for as much as 15 yrs. Nobody may ever come for them because in most cases, the documents of deposit are
never available to any body except the depositors most of them dead.
Since the inception of the 2000 millennium, STANDARD SECURITIES MANAGEMENT changed the procedure
for claim of consignments. As soon as you are able to produce all the secret information as contained in the
secret file of anyconsignment, it will be released to you upon demand.
From our records, more than 120 consignments belonging to Mobutu Sese Seko and Foday Sankoh have been
claimed in the past six months. This is why I am soliciting for your co-operation and assistance. Mobutu Sese
Seko has 85 consignments deposited with several names and codes. 35 have been claimed in the past six
months. I have finished every arrangement for you to come and claim consignment No.988 containing USD 20M.
My duty is to supply you with all the information and documents by fax. You will deal directly with the management.
The procedure is simple: you will apply officially to the Director of Operations of STANDARD SECURITIES for
the release of consignment No. 988 . They will demand for some documents and secret codes. Call me, I will
supply you with every detailed information which you will Fax it to them. As soon as they confirm it to be correct,
they will invite you for the collection. If you do not want to come to Accra, Ghana you can arrange with them to
transfer the consignment to anywhere on agreement.
Nobody will ever know I am involved in the deal except the Lawyer who will write an agreement for us. I will
suggest upon conclusion we share 50/50. At the successful conclusion of the deal, you will arrange for my
family and me to come over to your country. I assure you that the business has been hatched free for 5 years
now, it is very secure and risk free.
You can call me on telephone No: 233-244- 824201 (24hours) for further explanations and directives on the
procedure.
God bless you.
Sincerely yours,
David Pratt.
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