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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: zerbatbrav1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:49:21 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?VERY=20IMPORTANT=2E?=
My faithful friend,
I am the executive directtor of contract award/inspection unit of the West
African Contract Awarding Committee Burkina Faso Zone. We award contracts
and approve contract payments in West African Sub-region. I know that it
will be a suprise for you to receive this mail from me as you didn't know
me in person. Any way I got your contact email address from a book called
"yahoo details" here in Burkina Faso Chamber of Commerce when I was desperate
looking for foreign partner. However, in the recent past, we approved and
awarded contract to foreign firm in which they have completed successfully,
and most of them have received their payments.
In the course of these contracts award, I and my very good friend Mr. Amadou
Bamba who was the director audit/accounts department, but have died as a
result of cardiac arrest (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE). We over-invoiced
the contract values with a total sum of USD$32.5M (Thirty-two million five
hundred thousand dollars). The over-invoiced sum is now floating in a suspense
account in our contract paying bank " BANK OF AFRICA" (BOA) Ouagadougou
Main branch, Burkina Faso. I have decided to contact you in order to transfer
the said amount into your nominated bank account for safe and possible disbursment
immediatly after the successful transfer. This fund is very clean fund and
I am the only one who knows the real truth in it as my collegue "Mr. Amadou
Bamba" is no more. You should not worry for anything else.
This transaction is 100% risk free. All necessary contract documents shall
be obtain on your behalf by a legal practitioner to back-up our claims.
Kindly contact me on the above phone number or mail, for more explanations
and possible means of transferring the fund into your account. If you accept
my offer I shall compensate you with 40% of the money, 60% for me. Thereafter
all expencess you may encounter during the course of the transaction will
be reducted from my shear as soon as the fund hit your account.
I am assuring you that with my position and authority confirned on me, this
money shall hit your account before 21 working days if you comply with all
necessary conditions with out delay. Please note that this is not push over
or a poor man transaction. I assure you that after this transaction your
life will change to better and you will never forget me till your last day
on earth. This mail is very important and will be your best choice of the
year. Send an e-mail as soon as you get this message, I will be waiting.
I wish you the best of luck and pray to see you in person as soon as the
transaction is completed.
NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL.
PLEAS REPLY TO (zerbatbravo@hotmail.com)
Thanks for your assistance in advance.
Yours Sincerely,
ZERBAT BRAVO.
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