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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: "Komane Edula" <komane02@amnetsal.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: komane03@excite.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:21:55 +0100
Subject: Investment
Dear Sir/Ma
You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I
have decided to contact you for confidential, urgent
and rewarding joint business.
My name is KOMANE EDULA, I was a Personal Assistant
to the Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was
assasinated in February 2001 and my aim of writing to
you is because of the need for a trusted and honest
person, who I can entrust the sum of US$25,000,000
(TWENTY FIVE)million, USDollars).
Source of the money: I and the late president secured
this money in a Ecowas Security Firm, in my name
before his death. Now that he is late, I want to
transfer the money out of Africa, for investment in
your country, I can not travel out of Nigeria where I
am on political asylum, hence I am asking for your
assistance to have this money in your care pending
when I will secure travel documents to come over to
your country.
If you accept this offer we shall share the money as
follows: for you, 30%, 70% for me. I have all the
title documents to the fund which I can transfer to
you to enable you have assess to it. Be assured that
is risk-free and legitimate.
Please advise me on your position by e-mail
immedaitely, indicating your phone and fax numbers.
Please I await your prompt reply
KOMANE EDULA
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