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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: "susan williams" <contact@susan-williams.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:36:31 +0000
Subject: urgent respond needed
Dear Friend,
How are you doing today? I hope fine. if so glory be to God. My name is
Susan Williams I am the daughter to the late former minister of agriculture
in Nigeria. my dad died since 5yrs ago in a ghastly plane crash on his way
back from Kenya, and since then life has not been easy for me and my family
anyway I thank God that I am alive today. Since the death of my dad things
have not been easy with us. Though my dad died leaving a huge amount of
funds, the funds he left behind for us was a pay back contract deal between
him and a consortium of Russian firms on the country's multi-billion dollars
Agricultural complex. The Russian partners paid my late father's share of
US$28.5 Million. After his death, my elder brother quickly packaged
diplomatically the funds in two trunk cases as consignment for onward
movement to Canada through diplomatic immunity and lodged with one reliable
security company in Canada. We would have love to invest the money in
Russian had it been we knew that the federal Government will turn against
our family, right now the new civilian government has intensified it's probe
on our late father's financial resources, hence we need your assistance as
our foreign partner to claim the two trunk cases containing the total funds
from the security company in Canada for onward movement to your safe custody
in your country pending our arrival to join you. I and my family have gone
through hell even my dad’s brothers could not help us.
After this has been done my family and I are willing to offer 25% of the
funds to anyone that can assist us so that we can claim our father’s money.
My mum has been so ill and things are not really going well with us here. I
decided to contact you because I knew God was gong to use you to assist me
and my family from our present predicament. As soon as we have been able to
collect this money I and my family will be coming overseas so we can start
up a new life and invest in a profitable business venture I will be glad if
you can assist. I write this write in tears and pains, I appeal to you to
assist me so that the funds can be transfer will give you more details as
soon as hear from you. I want you to know that I have been directed by the
spirit to send this to you, may the lord bless you richly as you assist my
family and me in regaining our lost life back as this is my mum's only wish
right now? And do please reply me with this email address:
susan_williams002@yahoo.co.uk
Best regards
Miss Susan Williams.
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