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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: sadik_kure@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:57:14 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS=20=20TO=20=20=20FROM=20=20=20SADIK=20=20=20INVESTMENT?=

SOCIETE,SADIK INVESTMENT
RUE 102 ZONE DE AMBASSADE
AKPAKPA. COTONOU - REPUBLIC DU BENIN
TEL.... 00229 98 77 12.

Sir

We are small new firm engaged in export of goods to
overseas outside my country. We have won various small
exports contract at one time or the other, recently we
were (engaged) contracted to supply cocoa, and dried
natural rubber to tire manufacturing companies in
Peru, US and Europe, which was successfully done.

However, in as much as we able to successfully carry
out these supplies, we experience difficulty remitting
our proceeds from the sale of these products home.
This is due to the fact that the fiscal policy in my
country is very stringent and not favorable.

Small firms like ours are not allowed before six
months of operation, to open and operate a domiciliary
account in foreign currencies abroad through which we
would have been able to remit our proceeds home. To
this end we seek a foreign company or individuals who
we can nominate as our partners to receive our
payments in their business/individual accounts on our
behalf and in turn send the money directly to us.

Thus we are willing to pay the individual or company
15% of the total sum for their assistance. This 15%
will not be a loss to us instead we hope to
incorporate these costs in our future charges to our
prospective customers overseas.

Currently we are not able to bring back home our funds
totaling USD36,000 dollars (Thirty Six Thousand
dollars) in Peru, US and Europe from export we just
made. We therefore solicit your assistance to help
remit this money by sending your account details viz:
bank name, account number and account beneficiary to
us so that we can instruct our customers to remit
these monies directly to your account, or
alternatively the checks will be mailed to you. We
also require that you send us urgently your telephone
and fax numbers for proper communication prior to any
transaction.

We are also hoping to build a long term business
relationship with you should you be interested. Once
we have built our trust on you, we will continue to
straighten the business relationship. We hope you can
be of assistance to our company. We are very much
aware of various scams going on all over, and as such
we are assuring you that at no time you will be
required to pay or transfer funds that you have not
received from our customers to us. We are sincerely a
legitimate entrepreneur seeking for a trustworthy
foreign partner.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

SADIK KURE.
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
( SOCIETE, SADIK INVESTMENT )
TEl..00229 98 77 12





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