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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Mr. Avril Cummings" <avril_cmings@z6.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:42:11 +0300
Subject:
Dear,
with every hope that my letter to you wouldn’t take you totally unawares. I got your contact through a business magazine and your very name reflects to me
as someone to be trusted. For this very reason I will hold you in trust and confidence.
My name is Avril Cummings, the former commissioner of Income Tax of Republic of Sierra Leone. In the month of July 2001, I started to receive threats, false allegations and counter accusations from the government of Sierra Leone under President Tejan
Kabbah. Subsequently the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) headed by Commissioner Val T. Collier put phoney corruption charge on me and an arrest warrant was put on me. (Reference to West Africa magazine
Publication of 26th Nov. & 2nd Dec. 2001) web.www.westafricamagazine.com.
I am a man of affluence, no doubt about that. I have acquired enormous wealth, no doubt about that. But my wealth was not acquired illegally neither have I solicited or accepted an illegal advantage as falsely accused by the Anti-Corruption Commissioner.
President Kabbah did all these injustices to me in other to silence and destroy my reputation because he has seen me as an obstacle or impediment to his
continuous stay in power.
Also President Kabbah wants to eliminate me as I have politically taken side with his party’s opponents and challengers, like Charles Margai (ref. Publication of 21st & 27th Jan. 2002 www.westafricamagazine.com.
As fate would have it, I was fortunate to escape from Sierra Leone and now I am a refugee in Ghana. In the course of my departure from my country, I have securely arrived Ghana with my immediate family and my younger brother Princewell.
I also have with me some reasonable quality of precious mineral and cash amount of about $25.5m (Twenty five Million five hundred US Dollars) encased in a sealed metal iron box, which for safety measures I have deposited in a reputable private security company, I declared that the contents are precious family valuables in other not raise suspecion.
I now solicit for your partnership / assistance to transfer these funds to your country for onward investment. I will furnish you with further details after receiving your response. Take everything confidential. Note: You wouldn’t involve your personal money in the course of the transaction.
God bless you.
Mr. AVRIL.C.
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