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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: "Lucia Michel" <lucia_michel101@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:36:24 +0000
Subject: URGENT
Dear Sir,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not
known or ,written before. Introducing myself, I am Miss Lucia Michel 23
years of age, the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs JUAN MICHEL ,my father
was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, (Ghana)and Abidjan (Ivory
Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their
business trips. Before the death of my father on 29th June 2002 in a private
hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bedside and told me
that he has a sum of USD$12.5M (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S
dollars), deposited in a Bank here and that he used my name as his only
daughter as the next of kin and beneficiary in depositing the fund. He also
explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by
his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for
investment purposes such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and
real estate management here. On how best to transfer this money to overseas
please, I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following
ways :
1-To assist me in providing an account of yours where
this fund can quietly be transferred into.
2-To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am
still in the university.
3-To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and to help me secure a residential permit in your country.
Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for
your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your
nominated account overseas, while 5% will be set aside to offset any
expenses we may incur. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards
assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within
the shortest possible time if your signify interest to
assist me.
NB : Please contact me immediately you receive this message through this
e-mail address if you are
interested.
God bless.
Yours sincerely,
LUCIA
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