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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: "SARA KOME" <sara0kome@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sara_kome@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:08:18 +0100
Subject: God be with you
Dear Friend
I am very sorry to bother you with my plight.
please know that it's not by mistake I am are contacting you
but by the special grace of God.
After searching for someone I can lay
my plight to,I've finally come with you after prayers to God.
My name is SARA KOME from Liberia. I am 19.
My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the
civil war after loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in
the war.They were raped and shot.
My father established his cocoa
business in Man, Ivory Coast.
He was in abidjan, to negotiate for the purchase
a field when he was caught in a cross fire between france troops keeping
peace here and Ivory Coast army. He was shot in the ribs wether by french
troops or Ivorian troops,nobody is able to tell me.
There is a big problem here and the people here hate foriegners.
He was hospitalised before he finally gave up on on the 24th of october .
His death has now made me an orphan and I am exposed to danger.
As I write, foriegners are attacked on daily basis.
Before the unfortunate sudden death, my father called me to his side and
told me he have a total sum of 8.45 million dollars deposited in a security company in Brussels Belgium.
He siad the company dont know the content of the two mettallic boxes because he expained to me that they will refuse to keep cash so he said he packaged the money with cloths and jewellries and he declared it to the company as family valuables.
He siad he used me his only surviving child is his next of kin to the deposite and incase he
fails to make it that I should take care of myself and get someone to help
invest the money for me. I have all the papers with me here.
I have confirm from the security company all the papers he gave me on the deposit.
I asked them to send me the boxes but they have replied me that my dad signed a paper with them that I must be 23 years old before they can hand over the boxes to me personally.They said I should send them my birth certificate which I did and they told me that am still under the age my dad signed with them.
In the agreement paper , my dad made a provision that my guardian can collect the boxes on my behalf and manage the money for me.
Please this is where I need you please.
I want you to stand for me as my guardian and contact the company where the two boxes are.Tell them you are my guardian and because of the crisis here,you want me to be with you where you can better take care of me.
Tell them to send the two boxes to you immediately so that when you get it,you will open it with the secret code which I will send to you and send me some money and a letter of invitation to get my visa to join you there.Tell them that you are nmy guardian that my late father said will take care of me incase he dies.My dad did not gibve them the name of my guardian.
I am all alone here.I have ran to a guesthouse to stay now and the cash I have will last me here
for another 11 days accomodation.Please help save my life please.
I have no more money here and feeding is a big problem to me now.Please contact them now so that before my accomodation expires,I can have money to leave.Please I am trusting you because I trust God.
Again, As soon as the money has been transfered ,to assist me with a letter
of invitation that will make me get a visa to
your country for residence inorder for me to continue my
education and to invest the fund in a viable
business there.
This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I need you to
manage the fund for me as this is my last hope in life. I am ready to
do anything you want provided you help me.
You can Have 20 percent of
the money if you help me.If this is acceptable to you, send me a
mail through my e-mail account so that I can know you more . Please send me your photo and your telephone number please.
God Bless you.
Yours, Sincerely
sara kome
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