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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: "mrs eyadema" <eyademamary@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:32:57 +0100
Subject: contact me
My Dear,
I am Mrs Gnassingbe Eyadema, widow to the former head of state,late Gnassingbe Eyadema, who died suddenly as a result of cardiac arrest on Saturday , Febaury 5th 2005
One early morning, I was called by my late husband President Gnassingbe Eyadema who at that time was the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the Head of State of the Federal Republic of Togo, he took me around the apartment and showed me three metal boxes of money all in foreign currency now secured with a security company in Lome.
My husband told me he was to use the money for the settlement of his personal royal guards on his self-succession bid and campaings.
Therefore, the family is urgently in need of a very reliable investor participant that we could entrust with the certificate of deposit and PIN (personal identification number code to help us remove the funds since no names were used in securing the vault. I got your name and contact address from our chamber of commerce and industry office in Piya, in southeastern Togo. If the proposal is acceptable to you, after getting the money out of the security company vault to your country, my family have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for the assistance you rendered to us and bank the family's own part of the funds and assist us in investing (with my approval) in a project as a front from there we can discuss the way forward, most especially now that my eldest son, Faure Gnassingbe and I are under pressure from the government.
Please kindly reach me by this email, for more details on the logistics and modalities if you are interested in a "partnership" so that we can arrange a meeting in (Lome) Togo for more information and how to move the fund out of the security company.
Note: I do not need to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction demands. My son Faure Gnassingbe will only be the one to tell you when ever it is possible to talk to me. If you are not interested, please kindly reply to me immediately to enable me to search for another interested partner.
Thanks and accept my regards.
Mrs Gnassingbe Eyadema
For the family.
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