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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: "Amina Adenike" <aminaadenike@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: aminasunni@myway.com
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:43:20 +0100
Subject: PEACE BE WITH YOU
DEAR MD/CEO,
I AM MISS. AMINA SUNNI ,THE FIRST DAUGHTER OF LATE
HON. SUNNI ADANIKE,FORMER CHIEF PROTOCAL AND
LOGISTICS OFFICER TO FORMER PRESIDENT OF DEMOCRATIC
REP.CONGO MR.A.KABILA,MY LATE PARENTS WHO WERE
MURDERED ON THE 24TH OF MARCH 2003 BY THE NOTHERN PEOPLES FRONT
WHO BELIEVED THAT MY DAD WAS A BACK BONE TO THE THEN
PRESIDENT,PRESENTLY I AND MY TWO BROTHERS WHO HERE IN A
HOTEL IN GHANA.
SINCE AFTER MY PARENTS DEATH, WE HAVE NOT FIND JOY
,COMFORT AS MY RELATIVES TOOK AWAY ALL THAT OUR
PARENTS LEFT BEHIND IN THE NAME OF TRADITION AND WAR
THAT SCARE US AWAY.WHAT A TRAIT THAT TRADITION AND WAR
HAVE REMAINED TO OUR LIVES BUT NEVER THE LESS, WE HAVE
TO SURVIVE AND THAT IS WHY I DROPED FROM SCHOOL TO DO
SOME ODD JOBS TO FEED MY YOUNGER ONE'S YET IT HAS NOT
BEEN ALL THAT EASY FOR ME AS I BEEN MOLLESTED SEXUALLY
MANY TIMES.ALL MY EFFORT TO REACH THE SON OF THE
FORMER PRESIDENT FOR ASSISTANCE DID NOT YEILD GOOD
RESULT
DUE TO THE SECURITY AGENTS THAT ARE GUIDING HIM.
ACTUALLY, OUR PEOPLE HAVE STARTED RETURNING TO
DEMOCRATIC REP.CONGO BUT MY YOUNGER ONES CAN NOT HEAR
THAT AS THEY SAID THAT THEY CAN'T BEAR SEE OUR UNCLES
AND AUNTIES ENJOYING OUR HERITAGE WITH THIER KIDS
WHILE WE ARE SUFFERING.INSTEAD THEY ARE BENT ON
TRAVELLING EITHER TO EUROPE ,AMIRECA OR CANADA AND IT
IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO AFFORD THE MONEY THAT CAN BEAR
THE COST OF TRAVELLING TO ANY OF THESE OVERSEA
COUNTRIES.
LAST WEEK ONE OF MY BROTHERS CONTACTED ONE OF MY LATE
FATHERS LAWYER FRIEND BASED IN THE CAPITAL CITY
KINSHASHA FOR AN ASSITANCE,BUT THIS MAN WHO HAVE HIS
TWO LEGS AMPUTATED AS A RESULT OF THE WAR OFFER
NOTHING TO US THAN RELEASING INFORMATION TO THE
DOCUMENTS THAT MY DAD LEFT WITH HIM KNOWING WELL THE
TRADITION OF OUR
PEOPLE.
THE INFORMATION IS THAT MY DAD DID DEPOSITED SOME
CONSIGNMENTS WITH A SECURITY COMPANY IN GHANA AND
THESE CONSIGNMENTS CONTAIN VALUABLES WHORT MILLIONS
OF UNITED STATES DOLLARS.CONSIGNMENT NO.LB1448BZ WITH
SECURITY CODE XXL/12P/001.CONTAINING $12.8M US DOLLARS
CONSIGNMENT NO.LB1447BZ WITH SECURITY CODE
XXL/12P/002. CONTAINING 265kgs ALLUVIAL GOLD
22.5CARRAT PURITY.
YOU MAY SEE THESE AS A RELIEF TO OUR PROBLEMS BUT THAT
IS FAR FROM IT AS MY FATHERS FRIEND TOLD US THAT WE
CAN NOT CLAIM THE CONSIGNMENTS AS WE ARE UNDER AGED
AND ALSO THAT THE CONSIGNMENTS WERE DEPOSITED WITH THE
NAME OF A FOREIGNER AS THE NEXT OF KIN.THESE ARE THE
RESTRICTIONS THAT WE ARE FACING AND WE WERE ADVISED BY
OUR DADS FRIEND TO SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE PERSON WHO
WILL HELP US CLAIM THOSE CONSIGNMENTS.THAT IS WHY I
MADE THIS CONTACT TRUSTING THAT YOU CAN HELP US WITH A
SINCERE HEARTH.
IT IS BASED ON THIS ADVICE THAT WE ARE WRITTING TO BEG
FOR YOUR ASSITANCE IN HELPING US CLAIM THIS
CONSIGNMENTS WHILE WE ARE PROMISING TO PAY YOU
BACK WITH 30% OF THE TOTAL VALUE AND TO REFUND EVERY
DINE YOU MAY SPENT DURING THE CLAIMING EXERCISE. OUR
DADS FRIEND SAID THAT HE ASSIST US NORMALLISE THE
DOCUMENTS TO MEET WITH THE LEGAL STANDARD THAT WILL
ENABLE WHO SO EVER THAT WILL HELP US CLAIM THE
CONSIGNMENTS.
I AM CONTACTING YOU BELIEVING THAT WITH YOUR DIVIVE
ASSISTANCE WE MUST SURELY EXCEL AND ENJOY THE FRUIT OF
OUR PARENTS LABOUR,BECAUSE THE GOOD MAN IS A LIGHT IN
THE DARKNESS FOR THE UPRIGHT.OUR PRAYER IS THAT ALLAH
WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART TO CONSIDER HELPING THE ORPHARNS
AND NEEDY PERSONS LIKE US AND IF YOU DID CONSIDER OUR
HUMBLE REQUET MAY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH BLESS YOU,
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND UNDERSTANDING AS WE AWAIT YOUR
POSITIVE RESPONSE.
YOUR'S SINCERELY,
MISS. AMINA SUNNI.
___________________________________________________________
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