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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: paulralph25@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:41:33 -0700
Subject: INVESTMENT
Beloved,
BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT PROPOSAL
I am contacting you by the direction and instructions of my husband,
President charles Taylor the ex-president of Liberia who is presently in
assylum in Nigeria.
I got your contact through my concerted efforts to secure some credible
partners that could be useful in the discharge of my duties as an
international business consultant, market and commodity Broker based in
Lagos Nigeria with offices in Lome Togo, Accra Ghana and Duala (Cameroon).
Before I proceed, I am Mrs Patricia T. Taylor, the wife of the
Ex-president of Liberia, we have a lot of influential clients all over Africa
most of whom are top present and past Government functionaries in African
who for strong political reasons never wanted publicity. We the family of
Charles Taylor needed an urgent assistance (help) for a business venture.Please
view this site below:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/taylor.warcrimes/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/liberia.1300/index.html
PLEASE KEEP VERY CONFIDENTIAL. My husband, Mr.Charles Taylor and our
family,who are presently in Nigeria (Charles Taylor) since the outbreak
of the crises that toppled the government and since his re-instentment in
office.
Fortunately for Charles Taylor and our family, Charles Taylor carried
away a fortune of US$20.2 million (Twenty Million Two Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) only which he succeeded in carting away as a result
of the civil war in Liberia then this amount of money is presently deposited
in a private security company in up till now.
Charles and his families are now looking for a trusted or credible
person that will help them move this fund out of the shores of Africa for
a possible investment outside Africa.
Recently, Mr. Charles Taylor confidentially sent me a letter authorized
me to contact you as our foreign partner that will help our family move
the fund outside Africa so as to invest the money wisely as intended.
It is based on this that I now write to you to be our partner in this
venture.
Our family is ready to negotiate with you reasonably for a certain
percentage of the total amount to compensate you for your assistance based
on my husbands directive.
Presently, we are offering 30% of the total money to you for your
interest in assisting the family.
Therefore, if you are interested to be our partner in this venture
kindly contact our family lawyer Barrister RALPH PAUL immediately through
his e-mailaddress:ralphpaul@myway.com so that you shall have a good understanding
with him on how to go about the venture.
I am looking forward for a successful business relationship with you
and hope that you will keep the whole transaction very confidential.
please if the offer doesn't interest you kindly kindly contact our
family lawyer, Barrister RALPH PAUL on this adderss {ralphpaul@myway.com}so
that he will detail you of the business and if otherwise, still let me know
so that we will look for another person.
Best Regard,
Mrs. Patricia T. Taylor
For the Family
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