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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: "Mark Cooler" <cooler_mark@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cooler_mark@zwallet.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:01:54 +0000
Subject: seeking for help.
From:Mark Weah Cooler.
Country: Liberia, West Africa.
Attn:The CEO/Md,
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in
this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will
be given genuine approval considering the facts we have not known
each other before; I wish to use this opportunity to introduce
myself to you.
I am (Mark Weah Cooler ) from Liberia, West Africa. I write
to inform you my desire to invest, and to buy a living house in
foreign country.I am the first son of Mr. Weah Cooler; my father
was a diamond/gold merchant in my country.My father had a bullet shot
by the rebels on his way traveling out of my country with two of my
younger sister's due to present crisis that occurred in our country
(Liberia).
My sister's died on the spot while UN peacemaker, keeping force rescued my father, and he was taken to hospital for medical treatment, which he later died. Before he died he revealed to me and my mother about the boxes containing: some kilo of raw gold
and $2.5 million,(two million and five hundred thousand us dollars).Which he deposited with a security company in Ghana for safekeeping.
My father did not disclose any of the content of the boxes to the security company. To avoid the officials from raising eyebrows to the funds.
Presently my mother and myself are here in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. Therefore I want you to assist me on how best we can invest this money, because my father told me that it is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing African count rise,that is why we want to invest in Abroad.
For your mutual assistance, my mother and myself have agreed to offer you 25% of the total amount of the money. We have all the vital documents covering the deposit and the ownership,which I can send to you through fax on request.I will want you to forward across to me your direct Tel/Fax number for more
information's about this transaction.
I am waiting for your urgent and positive feedback.
Best regards,
Mark Cooler.
(For the entire family)
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