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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: "STEVEN GREENE" <stevengreene@mmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: stevengreene@mail2world.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:54:56 +0000
Subject: Please read my deathbed covenant
Dear Friend,
I sincerely hope that after you read this mail you will respond to my
call,let me start by introducing myself; my name is Steven Greene. i'm
65 years old ,a british living in Dakar ( Senegal). I am a businessman
and owns two companies here in Dakar, married with two children.
My wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago but before
this happened my business and concern for making money was all i lived
for i never really cared about other values in life but since the loss
of my family, i have found a new desire to assist helpless familes. i
have been helping orphans in motherless homes, i have donated some money
to orphans in sudan, south africa, cameroun, brazil, spain, austria ,
germany and some asian countries.
Before i became ill, i kept some money, ten and a half million dollars
($10.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in a security
company in Europe .
Presently, i'm in a hospital my doctor told me i have prostrate cancer
that i have a few months to live.it is my last wish to see this money
distributed to charity organizations. because so much of my wealth has
been plundered by relatives and friends since my illness,hence i cannot
live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of
them since the money in the security company is the last fund that i
have left.
Right now i am partialy stranded in the hospital due to the nature of
my sickness so i am appealing to you to help me collect the deposit from
the security company in Europe and distribute it amongst charity
organizations.
I would want you to use your discretion to distribute the money and keep
10% of it for yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have
the money for any cost you might have incured during the process of
collecting and distributing the money to charity organizations.
May the good Lord bless you and your family.
Please reply to this mail .... as i can only communicate through my
laptop which is by my bed,as soon as i get your response i shall then
give you the necessary informations you need to collect this money
With Regards,
Steven Greene.
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