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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: "KOUAME ISABELLE" <kouame_isabelle@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:54:31 +0000
Subject: REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
Permit us to inform you of our desire going into business relationship with you. We know this mail may come to you as a surprise, Our Mother died long ago when she was about to delivered my younger brother ( jeff ), who is now 20 years old as of today, based that we lost our mother so early and I can not speak, our father took us so special because we are only two from my mother, I and my younger brother.
Introducing ourselves , I am ISABELLE KOUAME, 22 years of age the only DAUGHTER and one of the two surviving siblings of the late MRS KEITA KOUAME, the cocoa merchant. my father was also contractor who during the regime of the late President FELIX HOUPHOET BOIGNY. Before the death of my father, He told us that he has a sum of USD$48.5M (Forty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousands U.S DOLLARS), he deposited with one of the banks here, that he used the name of his foreign partner as the next of kin in depositing the fund. Now he died the same day with his foreign partner in auto crash, nobody is here to claim the money, so we want you to claim the fund as our father later foreign partner in overseas. So you have to send us your full name, address and your bank account information for the transfer of the fund to your account.
Please we are humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1- To assist us in claiming this fund and transfered into your nominated account for a profitable investment.
2)-To serve as the guardian of this fund on behalf of me and my brother.
3)- To make arrangement for us to come over and to help us secure a residential permit in your country purposely for the investment arrangement.
Moreover, we are willing to offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ Input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas, while 5% will be set aside to offset any expenses we may incur. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting us and this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time atleast 7 days if you signify your interest to assist us.
NB: Please contact us immediately as soon as you receive this message through this e-mail address (kouame_isabelle@hotmail.com) for procedures.
God bless as you do this.
Yours sincerely
KOUAME ISABELLE.
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