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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: sar_dw@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:10:12 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FOR=20YOUR=20URGENT=20ATTENTION=20AND=20ACTION=2E?=

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am reaching you through this medium believing that we can work together
and achieve positive result in my bid to transfer
funds abroad for humanitarian and charity purposes.

I am Mrs. Sarah Dave-Wright, Wife of late Mr. David S. Wright, a white farmer
and Gold Merchant killed at the wake of the unrest
that gulfed my country, Zimbabwe, years back.

My late husband was brutally murdered in cold blood by the government of
the infamous President, Mr. Robert Mugabe on October 28, 2003 and I had
to go into hiding, a move that brought me to this French speaking colony
of Cotonou, the capital of the Republic of Benin.

I chose this country, because of its peacefulness and security coupled with
the fact that my husband, two years ago deposited
some funds here with Investors Trust, a security company amounting to Eighteen
million, Five hundred thousand United State dollars in a safe deposit box.

I want to immortalize his name by going into charity oriented Ventures and
also to make the world know the bad works of Mr.
Mugabe. With me here is the certificate of deposit but I will not be able
to lay claims to the funds because I do not want to use any identification
documents that will show that am existing here for fear that the Mr. Robert
Mugabe's government might
locate me and secondly, a local lawyer here advice me to get a foreigner
that will act as my late husband's partner so that
the funds can be released, hence my contacting you.

I write this letter in utmost good faith believing that if you agree to
act as my husband's partner and get this fund out
then I will come over to meet with you so that we can sit and decide exactly
how to share. My proposed programmes will cost me between 8 to 10 million
so w e will still have about 8 million to share. Four million for you and
four for me.

Please let me know if you are ready to act as the bonafide recipient of
the funds so that I can call my local representative
here, who will give you more details that will assist us in collecting this
money without delay.

I want you to treat this with utmost confidentiality until we succeed in
this our mutual beneficial opportunity. Please your
urgent response will be appreciated so that I can give you my telephone
number and that of my lawyer so that you two can discuss the modalities.

You can also reach me through this email: sar_dw@caramail.com

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Sarah Dave-Wright.



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