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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 STELLA JACOB" <stella2003_jacob@post.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: stella2003_jacob@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:24:05 -0700
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSIATANCE
ATTENTION:DEAR SIR/MADAM
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I know that you will be surprised to receive this message.
please consider this message as a request from a family in there need of help. I am MRS STELLA JACOB from LIBERIA, the wife of Brigadier PETER JACOB.I got your contact through the south African Information exchange {S.A.I.E} regarding your trustworthiness.
My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in view of my husband's death.I need your assistance to act as the real beneficiary of some money which my husband deposited with a security company in the South Africa before his death.The amount involved is {US$17.000,000} SEVENTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
Note: that the security company in South Africa did not know the content of the box/consignment inwhich my late husband deposited the money inside it as money,reather my husband lets them to understand that the content of the box/consignment is a family treasure/jewelries belonging to a partner from your country.
My late husband was in charge of arms purchasing for LIBERIA arms forces and he generated this money in the course of purchasing arms for LIBERIA armed forces.He deposited this money with a private Security Company here in South Africa and my all the entire family are still in South Africa except my first son who is now in Dubai United Arab Emirates.And i'm assuring you that nobody knows about this money except my two sons and me.
All i am asking you is to assist us to act as the real beneficiary of the deposited consignment with Security Company in South Africa,then you will help us to get this consignment out from Security Company South Africa for investment purposes.
The reason being that the entire family are living in south Africa as political asylum seekers and the financial laws of South Africa do not allow asylum seekers except my first son who manage to excape to Dubai U.A.E. and all the deposited documents is with him, so I will be very grateful if you can assist us as you knows that all the vital documents is with my son in Dubai, he will be contacting you from Dubai upon your readiness to co-join with us in this transaction.For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 15% of the total money,while 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses incurred during the course of this transaction.
As soon as you get this message, Please reply immidiatly as the assurance i will always give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as i do not want anything to happen to this money.
Finally,I will like you to always and please keep the confidentiality of this transaction,confirm your direct phone numbers please.
Best regards,
MRS STELLA JACOB
YOU CAN AS WELL REACH ME THROUGH THIS.stella2003_jacob@yahoo.co.uk
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