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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: "princess mercy mosheshe." <pmercy11@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mercy@sixshot.com
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 06:36:26 +0100
Subject: The Royal Palace of Ogoni Kingdom,
The Royal Palace of Ogoni Kingdom,
Ogoni Oil Producing Community,
River-State,
Nigeria.
My Dear,
I am Princess Mercy Mosheshe,daughter of Chief Olu Mosheshe, the king of
Ogoni Kingdom. My father was the King of Ogoni Kingdom the highest oil producing
area in Nigeria. He was in charge of reviving royalties from the multi-national
Oil companies and Government on behalf of the Oil producing communities
in Nigeria.
After the hanging of the nine Ogoni Indigenes including Ken Saro Wiwa by
the late dictator General Sani Abacha, my father and rest of these communities
leaders continued to agitate for the due right in items of the royalties,
by which the present democratic government resloved to be paying more quarterly
13% deprivation as a result of environmental degradation in these communities.
But unfortunately, my father suffered stroke and died December 7th last
year.
But before his death, he called me and told me he has Eleven Million Five
Hundred and Sixty Thousand Dollars (USD11,560,000.00) cash in his possession,
specially deposited in a Security Company. He advised me not to tell anybody
except my mother who is the last wife of the (8) eight wives that he married.
My mother did not bear any male child for him. Which implies that
all my father's properties, companies e.t.c., we have no share in them because
my mother has no male child according to African tradition. My father therefore
secretly gave me all the relevant documents of the said money, and told
me that I should use this money with my mother and two younger sisters because
he knows that traditionally,if he dies we cannot get anything as inheritance.He
importantly advised me that I should seek foreign assistance and that I
should not invest this money here in Nigeria because of his other wives
and male children who happen to be my elders.
Since his death, my mother, two little sisters and I are trapped in obnoxious
custom traditional rites. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship
in the hands of my half brothers and my late husbands family, simply because
my mother did not bear a male child for my late father. They have taken
all that my mother suffered with her husband to acquire including treasure,
houses and his bank accounts closed by them. I wanted to escape to the United
State of America [USA} with my mother and two little sisters on exile, but
again they conspired and stole our International
Passports and other traveling documents to further
frustrate us.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone, a
foreigner like you to help receive/secure these funds overseas and to help
me invest it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to
meet with you in your country.
I have had several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of
the Security Company and he has expressed willingness to cooperate with
me whenever I find a reliable foreigner. This is why I have contacted you
to help save my mother, two younger sisters and I, by assisting us to transfer
and receive these funds in your account overseas on our behalf. But you
would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would
not divert the funds. My mother and I have resolved to give you 20% of the
total sum. This is all my mother, two little sisters and I have got to live
on. Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint
me.
Upon receipt of your positive response, I will forward to you the contact
details of the Security Company for you to open up ommunication with them
and to find out the possibility of you receiving this fund on our behalf
as the sole beneficiary.
I look forward to receiving your urgent response
Best Regards,
HRH Princess Mercy Mosheshe
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