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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: "Mr Williams Yusufu" <w_yusufu607@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: williamsyusufu@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:40:53 +0200
Subject: I need your assitance.
Urgent Investment Assistance
Dear Sir,
My name is, Williams Yusufu, former Special Assistant on Internal Security to the late President Kabila who was assassinated on the 16th of January 2001. you may be surprise to receive my letter on the grounds that we have not met before. But never mind you will get to understand the situation and my reason of contacting you as you read further. Before the assassination of president Kabila, I have as I had always done for him through the assistance of a Security Companymoved the sum of USD$15,400M (Fifteen million four hundred thousand U.S dollars) out of the Democratic Republic of Congo for safe keeping in Dakar Senegal.This security company also has affiliate offices in Europe. With his death and our inability to inform his business partner in Europe of this last arrangement, there is no other person who knows about this money except me and my only son. I have contacted the Security Company and they are ready to negotiate with who ever I recommend as the beneficiary for onward
transfer. I am contacting you to solicit for your urgent assistance to help me indication the present government headed by his son,joseph Kabila, is watching our movement as former aids since his assassination is put under close watch. There is no risk involved in this and I assure you of a smooth and 100% risk free transaction. You are please to maintain absolute confidentiality in this matter. Apart from the joint business rticipation, I will be very willing to give you a 20% share of the total money. I am not ready to contact any other person until I get a reply from you.
I await your response.
Yours sincerely,
Williams Yusufu
NB: Please note, At the present, the consignment has been shipped to Spain where the Dakar Senegal Security company has an affiliate company and representative . also. For obvious security reasons, this is my contact phone number +221 596 9674 call me as soon as you recieve this email proposal.
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