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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: patrickkofa47@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:35:55 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20MR=2E=20PATRICK=20KOFA?=
This information is intended only for the person orientity to which it is
addressed and may contain confidential and/or previleged material. any review,
retransmission, desemination, or other use off or taking of any action in
reliance upon this information by person or entities other than the intended
receiptient is prohibited. If you have received this mail in error, please
kindly destroy the copy. Thank you
FROM MR. PATRICK KOFA
OF Banque Togolaise Pour Le
Commerce Et L'Industrie (B.T.C.I)
Lome-Togo,
West Africa.
Compliment of the season.
Attn: My gentle friend,
I am Mr. PATRICK KOFA, Director in Charge of Auditing and Accounting Section
of Banque Togolaise Pour Le ommerce Et L'Industrie Lome-Togo in West Africa.
With due respect and regard, After viewing your impressive profile couple
with your level of expirence, I decided to contact you on a business transaction
that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.
We had a foreign customer, who deposited a huge sum of money amounting to
(US$27.5Million) with our bank. Mr. Salah Adam, a Canadian National who
works with Shell Development Company here in Lome Republic of Togo in West
Africa. Late Mr. Salah Adam and his wife and two children, were aboard Egyptian
Flight 990,from Kennedy International Airport, which crashed into Atlantic
Ocean on October 31st 1999. He left Togo for a month vacation with his family
to New York in United States.
On his arrival back to Lome-Togo, they were among of those who crashed on
this Egypt Air Line, in Atlantic ocean. Late. Mr. Salah Adam was a Chemicals/Gas
Logistics Director Shell Development Company in Lome-Togo, before he dead.
Since their death, we have made several enquiries to Canadian Embassy to
locate our customer extended family relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.
After these unsuccessful attempts I decided to trace his relatives through
internet, yet to no avail, before I decided to contact you.
I am now seeking your assistance to come and stand as the next of kin to
late. Mr. Salah Adams's, so that we can put head together and claim this
fund, whereby by I have every related documentations to back you up. Be
hundred rest assured that I have agreed to work in harmony with you to ensure
that the fund is not forfeited by our bank, while I guarantee you that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect either
of us from any breach of law.
Please I want you to reply to me immediately, if this mail is acceptable
to you reply me through this e-mail address:- patrickkofa45@yahoo.com,
indicating how many percent of the funds, you may prefer to take after the
successful realization of this transaction. Feel free to ask any question
where you failed to understand properly. While I need your phone and fax
number while replying, to enable me to call you when the need arise.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. PATRICK KOFA.
Auditor General.
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