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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, 29 Mar 2005 20:29:27 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20MRS=2E=20SARAH=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. Few years
ago, my husband deposited some funds in a Finance Firm 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 we 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 lawyer's Telephone contact 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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