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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: "Miss Diana Kabaka" <dianakabaka@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:04:13 +0100
Subject: Miss Diana Kabaka
Miss Diana Kabaka
E-mail: dianakabaka@hotmail.com
E-mail: dianakabaka@jumpy.it
Dear
I know this letter may come to you as a surpise since it is coming from someone you have not met before. How, we decided to contact you based on a satisfory information we had about your profiles as regards this business inforemation concerning your country and safety of our fund in a steady economy such as that of your country compared
to Africa.
I am Miss Diana Kabaka 24 years of age, draughter of late Dr Williams Kabaka, the former Accountant to the Sierra Laone Gold mining coperation in Kenama, he was assassinated by the R. U. F. rebels during is visit to my home town in Sierra Laone on April 6th 2003.
Unfortunatly my mother died for hypartention three weeks later and before then my mother has already advice me and my younger brother Wilson, to look for foreign partner
to transfer this fund and invest in abroad. We inherited a total sum of US$ 18.3 dollars from my late beloved father as next of kin to my family. This money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box was deposted with a security company here in ABIDJAN under a speccial arrangement as family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of the box which was brought from Abidjan under dipolomatic coverage.Now that we are in Abidjan and verified the transaction, we need your assisstance to help us move this funds out for investment in your country as we cannot invest here due to its nearness to our conutry and the war still going on there.
We ask you to scout for a viable and lucrative business, so that we caninvest wisely.
We have it in mind to give you 7% of the total sum US$ 18.3 million dollars, and 3% of any expenses which you will make in course of this transaction--fax messages, phone calls, air tickets etc.
By this mail, you are now requested to arrage on how we can move the fund quick to your account in my country for investment.
There is need for urgent actions because my late father pay US$100daily as demurrage to the security company for keeping this consignments.
Please reply me immediately with my yahoo private address which is (
dianakabaka@hotmail or dianakabaka@jumpy.it )and include all your personal private contact address including e-mail, telephone and fax number.
Looking forward for your urgent response.
Your Sincerely
Miss Diana Kabaka
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