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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: "mimi ukpaka" <mimiukpaka@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mimiukpaka@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:06:59 +0100
Subject: Please consider my request
Bonjour s.v.p,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,i hope you will not be embarrassed receiving this mail as we have not had previous correspondences on this. I got your contact through a business directory made avialable to me in Senegaliase chamber of commerce
and industry and then decided to contact you for assistance. I hope you will not impede the trust and confidence I repose in you.
In brief introduction, I am Miss.Mimi Ukpaka, 22 years of age, an Ivorean National presently taking refuge in Dakar Senegal. The only child of Dr/Mr. Keita Damian Ukpaka. My father was a very rich Gold and Cocoa merchant, based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discussion a business deal.
I had earlier lost my mother in car crash in the year 2000 along San Pedro Road. Before the death of my father on September 26th, 2001 in a
private hospital where he has been admitted. He, my father called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $7,500,000 ( Seven
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in a Finance Firm in here in Dakar Senegal and I was made the next of kin.
He also explained to me that it was because of this money that he was poisoned by his business partners and that I should seek for a foreign
partner in a country of my choice where the fund will be moved to and used for any profitable business investment.
After my father's death, I was faced with many dangers from hostile relatives and business associates and couple with the war in my country
between the Government and the rabel. I have abandoned my country and came to Dakar Senegal where I took refuge at the Dr. Faye Refugee Camp in Dakar Senegal.
I succeeded in confirming the availability of the fund at the Finance Firm, but my Asylum condition does not allow me to do anything about
the claim, coupled with my inability to handle an amount of that magnitue because of my tender age. I am appealing to you to help me and as follows:
1) To stand as my trustee and claim the fund from the finance firm and secured in your custody and then send some money to me to process my travelling documents and come over to your country to further my education
while you invest the fund for me in any good business.
2) To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my education career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.
Thanking you for your understanding.
I look forward to your earliest reply
Yours truly,
Miss Mimi Ukpaka
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