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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: martinskomah11@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:33:57 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20From=20Martins=20Komah?=
Dear,
I am Martins Komah the son of late chief George Komah from Sierra Leone.I
am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance
in the transastion of the fund of twenty one million eight hundred thousand
united state dollars (US$21,800,000.00) which is now in the custody of a
Bank here in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire.
SOURCE OF THE MONEY.
My late father, chief George Komah a native of mende district in the Northern
province of Sierra Leone,He was the general Manager of Sierra Leone mining
co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to my father, this money was
the income inccrued from
mining co-operation's over draft and minor sales before the peak of the
civil war between the rebels forces of major Paul Koroma and the combined
forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country,
following the forceful removal from power of the Civilian Elected President
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels, my late father had already made an arrangement
for our family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire with our personal effects.
My father deposited the fund for the safe investment until after the warwhen
he will join us. During the war in my country and following the indiscriminate
looting of public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra
Leone mining co-operation's was one of the targets looted and destroyed
my father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and
killed by the rebels in November 2001 because of his relationship with the
civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, as a result of my father's death
and with the news of my uncles involvement in air crash in January, dashed
our hope of survival.
The untimely deaths caused my mothers heart failure and other related complications
of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of
money on her, my 16-year-os younger sister and myself are alone in this
strange country
suffering without any care or help, without any relation, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in this fund our late father
deposited in the Bank to this effect,
I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways to assist me claim
this fund from the Bank as my late father's co-beneficiary to us transfer
this fund in your name to your bank account in your country in order to
make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in
your country,
we seek that you should be the caretaker of this transaction and investment
so that you can secure a college for my little sister and my self in your
country to further our education and to make arrangement for our coming
to live with you in your country after the transaction.I am with the deposite
document which was issued to my father on the day of this deposit. For
your
assistance, I beg you to consider 15 % of this money as your offer and efforts.
Best regards,
Martins Komah.
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