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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. Valerie C. Johnson." <valeriecj@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:16:57 +0000
Subject: Re: Urgent Attention.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I MAKE THIS APPEAL WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY FACTS OR OPINION EXPRESSED BY ME ARE GIVEN IN CONFIDENCE AND SOLELY FOR YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND USE.
I am writing from Zimbabwe, i got your address from the Internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party President Robert Mugabe.
I am Mrs. Valerie Johnson, wife of late Mr.kamba Johnson who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. The action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband Mr. Kamba Johnson who did not support this ill-fated action. On 29th of July 2001 the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death.
Before the death of my husband, he deposited the sum of US$ 20.4 Million (Twenty Million Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with a finance company in Dakar, Senegal. This money was to be used in importing aminition to fight the dictatorship of Mugabe and his ZANU-PF. But this was installed due to the death of of my husband.
We now seek an assistance of a foreigner we can use his contact to retrieve this fund for safe keeping, untill when we moved out from here. We cannot approach this fund from here because we are being monitored by government's security agents.
For your support and partnership, we are willing to offer you an agreed percentage you wish to take when the fund is finaly transfered to your nominated bank account.
You must however note that this transaction, with regards to our disposition to continue with you, is subject to these terms and conditions. Firstly, our conviction of your transparency. Secondly, that you treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and above all, that you will provide an account over which you have absolute control. The transfer will be effected to your account within twenty-one working days from the date we reach an agreement
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there is no risk or legal lliability either to ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we have put in place the neccesary machinery that will ensure a hitch free transfer into your account upon acceptance.
PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER MY URGENT REQUEST. DO SEND TO ME YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTS, TO ENABLE ME FURNISH YOU ON OUR PLANS AS TO HOW WE INTEND TO ACTUALIZE THIS TRANSACTION.
Best regards,
Valerie C. Johnson (Mrs).
For The Family.
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