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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: bennie khobe <bennie_khobe2002@unihome.com>
Date: 16 Nov 2004 12:02:45 -0000
Subject: urgent response please
Attn;
This proposal to you is strictly
confidential, with due respect .Sorry at this
perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving
this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves
or met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to
write you this letter because of the urgency of it.
I am Mrs. Bennie Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell
Khobe former ECOMOG [West African peacekeeping force]
commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are
trapped in obnoxious custom traditional rites. We have
suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands
of my late husbands family, simple because I did not
bear a male child for my late husband By tradition,
all that my husband had, [wealth] belongs to his
brothers/family and myself is to be married by his
immediate younger brother. They have taken all that I
suffered with my husband to acquire including
treasure, houses and his bank accounts closed by them.
I wanted to escape to the United State of America
[USA} with my children on exile, but again they
conspired and stole my international passport and
other traveling documents to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code
[KTC} from SECURITIES COMPANY, that my husband
deposited U.S $25.5 Million [twenty five Million five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars] cash with this
company.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to
contact some one, a foreigner like you to help me
receive/secure these funds overseas and to help invest
it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of
getting out to meet with you in your country.
These funds are kept on a CODE with the Securities
Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I
have had several telephone discussions with the
Assistant Director of the Securities Company, Mr.
Gilbert Scott who has express willingness to help me
on meeting the company’s demand. This is why I have
contacted you to help save my children and I, receive
these funds on our behalf. But, you would need to give
me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would
not divert the funds. My children and I have resolved
to give you 20% of the total sum. This is all my
children and I have got to live on. Please, I have
reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me.
I will forward you the contact of Mr. Gilbert Scott
for you to contact him and ask him the possibility of
receiving this fund on our behalf as the sole
beneficiary look forward to your urgent response.
Best Personal Regards.
Mrs. Bennie Khobe.
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