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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: "FAITH DICKSON" <faithfullness_123w@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: faithbabby_123w@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 07:00:59 +0000
Subject: PEACE BE UNTO YOU IN THY NAME OF THY LORD
Dear Beloved,
I have been briefed to contact you because of your passion for
humanity and sympathy for people with just causes , i got your
contact from a priviledged source at the refugee camp here in ghana.
My name is faith dickson a citizen of liberia, from a very prominient
and renowned family. Presently i am staying with my one junior sister
and my aged mother who is 47yrs old now as refugee in Bujuburam Refugee
Camp in Ghana.
My father was a renowed diamond merchant in liberia who uses to travel
to different parts of Africa because of his business, it was during one
of his numerous travels that he learnt of a coup 'd' etat in our country
which claimed many lives and my father's senior brother who was a brigadier
in the army was killed which led to witch-hunting of some prominient people
from our family.
Because of the unfavourable situation in our country ,my father deposited
an amount of US$20 million dollars(twenty million dollars) with a security company in Ghana in the name of my mother.
This information was given to me by my mother when she was lying critically
ill in her sick bed.She had handed over all documents covering the above
transaction to me and i am looking for a trustworthy personality to put heads
together to retrieve this consignments from the security company which had
been kept in a sealed metallic box and labelled family treasure.
I have get in touch with the security company to know if all is well and
with the document and security reference number, i was informed that the
box is still in their custody and intact.
Right now i amd my mother had agreed to offer to you 25% from the total fund
and also we had also agreed to put aside 10% for any money that is going
to be spent before the consignment gets to you there in your country
Although the presidential task force do not know the real contents as they
were labelled family treasures, and i do not want you to disclose same to
them when contacted on this subject matter for our own safety and security.
Please, with all due respect i will like you to reply this mail so that i
will know what we are to do to get this consignment out of this country to
overseas for subsequent investment.
Hope to hear from you soon.
your's faithfully,
faith dickson.
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