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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: "alice" <aliceclark@sify.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: aliceclark2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:02:43 +0530
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL
ATTEN SIR,
It is my pleasure to write you after much
consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face
to face at first. Being the only DAUGHTER of my
father, late Mr. John Clark from SIERRA-LEONE
Africa (WA) I am 20 years of age.
My father was limited liability DIAMOND and Gold
merchant in FREETOWN SIERRA-LEONE before his untimely
death. After his business trip to abidjan to nagociate
on a GOOD INVESMENT business he wanted to invest in
abidjan. A week after he came back from abidjan , he
got an accident with my mother of which my mother died
instantly but my father died after five days in a
private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn?t
know that my father was going to leave me after I had
lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it
was as if he knew he was going to die.
He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he
disclosed to me that he deposited sum of
$5,000,000.00 US Dollars (FIVE MILLION DOLLARS) in a
security company here in abidjan That the money was
meant for his DIAMOND and Gold company he wanted to
establish in abidjan though, according to my father he
deposited the money in a trunk box but declared it as
vital family belongings. He single handed me the key
of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed
me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business
partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have
succeeded in locating the security company here in
abidjan also confirmed the items with most honest and
confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me
lift this money out from abidjan to your safe account
abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful
lucrative business in your country because this is my
only hope in life.I am willing to offer you 10% of the
total fund if only you can help me out of my present
predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can
discuss the modalities of this business.
I await your immediate response.
Yours sincerely.
Alice John
pls contact me through this email
address( johnclark2005@yahoo.com )
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