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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: "Ken Jacob" <kjacobjr@codehot.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:01:22 +0400
Subject: Your Assistance Needed On This Transaction.
Dear Sir,
I am Mr.Ken Jacob,the son of late Dr. Kennedy Jacob from Sierra Leone.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000.000.00) now in the custody of a private Security trust firm in United Arab Emirates the money is in trunk boxes deposited and declared as family valuables by my late father as a matter of fact the company does not know the content as money, although my father made them to under stand that the boxes belongs to his foreign partner. Source of the money: My late father Dr. Kennedy Jacob, a native of Mende District in the Northerh province of Sierra Leone, was the General Manager of Sierra Leone Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown . According to my father, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operation's over draft and minor sales. Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my count!
ry, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for us that is my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT issued to him by a security firm in United Arab Emirates . During the war in my country,and following the
indiscriminate looting of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop. was one of the target looted and it was destroyed. My father including other top Government functionaries were attaked and killed by the rebels in November 2002 because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death, and with the news of my uncle's involvement in the air crash in January it dashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her early this year. Now my 18 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange
country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited in the Security Firm. To this effect,I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways:
1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary.
2. To transfer this money (USD$30M) in your name to your country.
3. To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country or elsewhere.
For your assistance, I have agreed with my younger sister that 20% of the total amount fund will be for your effort and another 10 % to cover all the expenses that may incur during the business transaction. Last,I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one knows our where about. Please as you show your willingness, Forward to us your full name, address and Tel/Fax numbers, to me via my private e-mail address as indicated below,this is for security reasons as I will only be accessing my private e-mail earnestly awaiting your response. Thanks. May God bless you as you assist us.
Mr.Ken Jacob.
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