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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: "jonathan stevens" <joesteve@telstra.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:54:03 -0800
Subject: urgent
Dear friend,
my names are jonathan stevens. i'm a 65 years old man. i am british living in dubai ( united arab emirate). i'm a merchant and own two businesses in dubai. i'm married with two children. my wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago. before this happened my business and concern for making money was all i lived for.i never really cared about other values in life.
but since the loss of my family, i have found a new desire to assist helpless familes. i
have been helping orphans in orphanages/ motherless homes. i have donated some money to orphans in sudan, south africa, cameroun, brazil, spain, austria, germany and some asian countries.
before i became ill, i kept some money, twelve and a half million dollars $12.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in a security company in holland and. presently, i'm in a hospital. my doctors told me i have prostrate cancer that i have a few months to live.it is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations. because so much of my wealth has been plundered by relatives and friends since my illness, i cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge
responsibility to any of them.
please, i beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit from
the security company in holland and distribute it amongst charity organizations. use your judgement to distribute the money and keep 5% of it to yourself.
feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incur during the process of collecting and ditributing the money to charity organizations. may the good Lord bless you and your
family.
i await your urgent response.
sincerly,
jonathan stevens
pls reply through this email-joesteve47@yahoo.com
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