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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.MARIAM GONO." <ransome2002@fsmail.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mariam_gono4@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:01:32 +0000
Subject: TOP URGENT.
Dear Sir,
I am Mrs. Mariam Gono,a civil servant from
Zimbabwe. My late husband, Mr. Ransome Gatorgay
Gono was the co-owner of an Agricultural firm and his
partner happens to be among the white farmers that the
dictator President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe took
over their farmlands and handed over to the blacks,
despite all the pleas from the International
Communities, and members of the COMMONWEALTH
COUNTRIES. Most of the company's assets, animal farms
and milk industry were seized and confiscated by the
tyrant President.
My late husband was a British citizen of
African descent and we both lived in the company's
staff quarters but our lives were threatened by agents
of President Mugabe. Since then, my husband and I have
been living in exile here in Dakar - Senegal. My
husband died last August as a result of cardiac
arrest. I am suffering from cancer of the breast
myself and will be undergoing a major operation early
next month, by Gods special grace.
Dear, there is a huge amount of money that I
and my husband before his death was able to send to a
security and finance company in Spain(Europe) through
the help of the International
Red Cross staff, because President Mugabe, placed
order for the closure of the accounts of all the white
farmers and no one was allowed to transfer more than
ten thousand dollars abroad but luckily enough, I and
my late husband along with some other farmers were
assisted through diplomatic means with the help of the
International Red Cross to send our money abroad for
safety. The total Sum is twenty two million US dollars
(US$22.000.000.00), the money is part of our life
savings and what my husband inherited from his late
father, from whom we took over the family business.
The money arrived safely in Spain-Europe.
I would like to have your assistance in
relocating and investing the money into any lucrative
business you deem profitable. I am 49 years of age and
my only son is still too young at 23, hence we need
your cooperation to secure this deposit which is as it
stands now, the only hope of our survival as I have
already lost my husband, coupled with my sickness and
the situation of insecurity. Life is no more the same
with me after all the lot I have gone through.
All my hope now rests on you, and I sincerely
believe you will not disappoint me, I am expecting
your immediate reply, so that I will forward to you
the contact of the security & finance firm in Spain. I
will equally give you a letter of Authority, giving
you the right to transfer this money to your location
for safety purposes while i prepare to come over after
my
surgery.
I would be expecting to hearing from you.
Sincerely your's,
Mrs. mariam Gono.
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