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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: "James" <jms_adekunle@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jms_adekunle01@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:07:28 -0700
Subject: Hello, Urgent pls
Hello,
Please i really need your help please, let me introduce myself to you, my name is james adekunle, I am from west africa Nigeria, And these will be my first time of mailing you, i search for your Email through iternet because i really need your help to asist me and my familly, we are one of the victim of the bombblast that happen some years ago here in lagos nigeria and we lost all our property then, but our goverment promised to respond for our help, he only give us house to live then and some money to manage, but since then we have been struggling and struggling to survive but things are not going fine, and now my sister, she's in hospital since March 20th, she as a seriuos sickness and doctor said, we should look for the sum of #350.000 Naira which is $2.500 in US dollar and i have been begging around all over my country but i don't find help.
so my friend now told me to search for email address, to mail you maybe you will be the one who can help me, i know all the people in my country have turn to fraud on these internet, but i swear to God i'm not one of them, my main purpose of mailing you is that i need your help,for you to help me and my family and my sister's life, pls we really need your help to assist us with any amount you can send to us pls, i dont whant my sister to die just like that in the hospital, my mother has been runing mad because she doesn't know what to do, she has borrow alot off money from people she knows but no body to borrow from again now, thats why i mail you maybe you will asist me and my family in the name of God, I will like to hear from you soon, we really need your asistant please.
Please reply me if you really want to help me in the name of GOd you are worshiping.
May Gog be with you, Bless you and your familly.
Thanks
Best regard
James .
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