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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: "Aicha Sonko." <aichasonko@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:23:37 +0100
Subject: PLEASE HEAR MY CRY!!!!!
Dear Darling,
How are you and your business ? I hope fine.
I know that you may not know whom I am? But I will
first of all introduce myself to you. My name is
Aicha Sonko, 22 yrs from the republic of Sierra-Leone
western Africa.
I came across your e-mail address and decided
writing to you at least to get acquainted with you, I
know that it might be a surprise for someone whom you
have not met before or talked to on phone is writing
such a mail to you, but never forget that it takes a
word to get to know somebody.
I am the daughter of Late Mr. Joseph B Sonko, the
former Finance Minister who died after suffering from
a serious heart attack. After his death we started
suffering from a very serious persecution from our
late father’s brothers due to they came about knowing
that our late father deposited a huge amount of money
($2.8 Million Us) (Two million, eight hundred Us
dollars) in a finance firm and making me the next of
kin to the fund.
When the persecution was getting tough and hard for
us that we could no longer bear, we decided (Me and my
younger brother) to run for our dear lives before
something happens to us, fortunately we ran to a
nearby country called Senegal, where we are presently
and we are taking refuge in a Catholic church in Dakar
Senegal where the General overseer is Rev. Ft Clement
Ison is in charge of the parish.
Now what we want you to do for us are this:
1) To assure us that you will not deny or cheat us in
this transaction, because this fund is all we have and
it is our hope and future, if you will have any
ulterior motive against this transaction we will
advice you to never respond to this mail, but if you
will help us with a open and clear mind towards this
transaction we have no choice than to let you
continue.
2) We will send to you the Finance firm’s contact
address as soon as we get a positive response from you
in order for you to contact them and start making the
claims immediately on our behalf.
3) We will want you to send to us your full contact
information for some security reasons.
4) The whole vital documents that back-up this
transaction will be sent to you immediately you send
to us your contact information.
5) We will want you to tell us when it will be
conducive and convenient for you to fly down to
Dakar-Senegal so that we can see and talk about this
transaction, at least this will build more confidence
between we and you.
Thank you for your understanding, we pray and wish
that this transaction will be successful by the grace
of God, and we are hoping to hear from you soon.You can contact
me with my e-mail address which is (aichasonko1@yahoo.com)
Your regards
Aicha Sonko.
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