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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: johnmark500@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:05:44 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FOR=20PURPOSE?=
FROM:JOHN MARK AND DORIS
TEL: 00225 0569 7933
Dear One,
please I am MR.JOHN MARK, the only son of late
Chief DAVID MARK from Sierra Leone.I got your contact,we prayed and fasted
. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and
confidence to rely on you. I am writing you in
absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance
to transfer our money, Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars (USD10.5 M) now in the a Bank
here in Abidjan to your private account pending our arrival
to your country.Source of the money my late father, Chief
David Mark, a native of mende district in the Northern
province of Sierra Leone,was the General Manager of Sierra
Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to
my father this money was the income accrued 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 father had already made arrangement for
his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to
be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire with our
personal effects .During the war in
my country, and following the indiscriminate looting
of public and Government properties by the rebel
forces, the sierra Leone mining coop. Was one of the
targets looted and destroyed.My father including other top
Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the
rebels in our Country because of his relationship with
the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result
of my father 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. Now my 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 money our
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 co-beneficiary to
transfer this money in your name to your country.
to make a good arrangement for a joint business
investment on our behalf in your country and
you,the care taker,to secure a college for my little sister
and my self in your country to further our education.and to
make arrangement for our travel with you to your country
after you have transferred this money.
I beg to concede 12% of this money to you for your efforts
assistance.
Best regards,
JOHN MARK AND SISTER
PLEASE CALL ME ON THIS TELEPHONE NUMBER 0022505697933
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