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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.Bolkiah" <aminatu@aklan.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: aminatu.brunei@aklan.com
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:20:32 +0400
Subject: CONSIDERATION
Assalam Alaikum,
I got your reliable contact from my late husband's business diary and
further explicit investment informations about your country from my
legal advicer in United Arab Emirates who has been of great assistance
since the incaceration of my family and our departure from Borneo- Brunei
palace due to severe human rights abuses occuring in my country.
I princess aminatu W.Bolkiah, the wife of prince Jefri Bolkiah,
Former finance minister of Brunie, the tiny oil-rich Gulf Island of
Borneo, I will save your time by not amplifying much of my extended royal
family history,which has already been disseminated by the international
media during the controversial dispute between my late husband and his
stepbrother, The sultan of Brunei Sheik Muda Hassanal Bolkiah,You may
know from the international media that the sultan accused my late husband
of financial mismanagement and improperity of $1.2 billion dollars.
This was as a result of the asian financial crisis that made my late
husband's company Amedeo Development Company and government owned Brunei
investment company to be decleared bankrupt during his tenure as a member
of the asian-Gulf exchange comittee.How ever my late husband was kept
under house arrest ,his bank accounts and private properties including a
crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate.
Futhermore during this unfortunate period,I was adviced to evacuate my
residence for saudi arabia were i can take refugee in order to avoid
further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives, but
before i could do that i was arrested placed under house arrest by the
sultan and no access to a phone but a pentium 4 computer from which i am
sending you this mail.Some of the guards here are still loyal to me.
Before my arrest,I deposited the sum of sixty Million dollars ($60,000,000.00)under
special arrangements with a financial company in different countries abroad for safe
keeping until my problems are over.The money were splitted and
kept in the following countries in these proportion: US$ 20Million in
croatia US$ 15Million is in south africa and $ 25Million in United Arab emirates.
Hence i seek your good assistance in claimming and investing my funds in a
profitable venture so as to facilitate future survival for my kids.
Kindly observe here that no terms of compensaition or payment has been discolsed yet
until tour consent is acknowledged.
Wa-sallam,
Aminatu W. Bolkiah
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