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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: marykho@tiscali.it
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:59:44 -0800
Subject: CAN YOU ASSIST ME PLEASE?
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Mary Khodorkovsky. I am the daughter of Mr. Mikhail
Khodorkovsky (m.k.) I am sending you this message due to what has happened
to my father
. you might not know him for now but will know him after reading this email.
I have a problem which I request your immediate support. Note that I am
not asking you to send me money, instead telling you to help me in something
that is very important. Before I tell you what I need, please logon to this
website. To know about my father and why I am sending you this message:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
There is one of my fathers account that has not yet been discovered by the
authorities holding my father, As the account was not related to his
businesses, but it will be discovered very soon, because information were
reaching the
authorities fast. The account is holding the sum of 17.4 million
dollars($17.4m).
I have contacted the bank in London holding the account to remove the funds
from there before the account will be frozen, and they have told me that
I was too young to claim the money from the account. And that I will have
to get someone
older to remit the money for me. Since I have the deposit certificate of
the account, all I have to do is to produce the Deposit certificate to the
person helping me in claiming the money and when he contacts the bank to
collect the funds; he?ll use it as a proof of the person directed by me
to claim the money. This is the reason why I have am contacting you. I am
honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To help me claim this funds from the bank, since the bank will not let
me collect this money due to my age.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 15years.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Moreover, sir I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation
for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund into your
nominated account
overseas.
Furthermore, you indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14) days you
signify interest to assist me.
Please help me collect the money from the Bank fast, before the authorities
get to know about the account and freeze it, as it is the only thing from
all my fathers wealth that is remaining that I can use to lay my self.
Incase you are wandering about My mother and other members of our family.
My mother died when she gave birth to my little brother. My brother is just
12 yrs old. I am doing all this because of him. we've been in London since
then with a man that used
to work for My father. the reason why we didn't tell him about the account
and what we were planning to do, was that he was among the people that set
my father up that made my father arrested, he did it out of jelousy
and envy on my father's wealth. so i cannot trust him with My fathers money.
I am waiting for you to reply me.
Mary.
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