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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: hellenuba@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:39:07 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?please=20reply?=
Dear sir,
My name is Mrs. Hellen Uba. I am a widow and a mother of two all girls.
I know you will see my letter to you as an embarrassment considering the
fact that we do not know ourselves. I plead with you to be patient with
me. I feel very pleased to contact you for some assistance and business
relationship. I live in Nigeria with my children.
My late husband was a loving, caring and hardworking businessman who died
unfortunately In a ghastly auto crash. Before the sudden death of my beloved
husband, the father of my daughters, my late husband intended to establish
a business in the united states of America with the sum of$5m.five million
united states dollars, but unfortunately he died before this proposed venture.
Following his death, his family members insisted that I am not entitled
to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman and my offspring's
all girls as I do not have a male child for my husband. Well, according
to some barbaric traditional laws here in Nigeria (Africa) which doesn't
permit a woman to inherit a man's property, as they are expected by tradition
to take over the management of his business and other properties including
myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate brothers.
Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $12m.Twelve million united
states dollars, which my late husband intended to use in establishing a
business in the United States was deposited in a Security firm overseas
which is unknown to his family .
I and the lawyer is the only one aware of this money, so I have discussed
this matter with a staff of the Company that i want this money personally
so that I will be able to take care of my children's educational needs since
my husband's family members vehemently opposed the furtherance of their
education.
According to the staff of the Security Company, the best way to secure this
money is to look for a foreigner who will stand as the beneficiary since
my husband did not indicated any For safe-keeping, later it will be used
for business establishment subject to your advise if you finally assists
us. At this juncture, I there fore ask for your sincere assistance in providing
us with your personal details and the enablement to facilitate the movement
of this fund by the Security Firm to your address. As soon as I get your
positive response, I shall let you know the next step to start up the process.
However, an agreed percentage will be giving to you of the total money as
a reward for your sincere assistance and the balance of the money will be
for my investment as I will want to keep aglow of my late husbands dream
of foreign investment. To be able to help me, kindly send through my email,
your personal details such as your full name and address,phone and fax number
to enable me make some little changes in the depository documents.
Thanking you for your anticipated response to: hellen-uba@yahoo.com.
Mrs. Hellen Uba.
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