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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: "Adamu Lami" <adamulami@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adamu_lami@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:56:09 +0000
Subject: Confidential
I am MR.adamu lami, the Director of Freight & Consignment,
SOLID TRUST & SECURITIES, DAKAR--SENEGAL.
Here in DAKAR Our firm is a security company of high
repute with years of outstanding service to the People of SENEGAL and
Europe..
I have decided to contact you through this medium based on business
proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not
discussed this transaction with anybody because it is of top
secret.
To be explicit and straight to the point. Some time early 2002, a
reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company\'s vault
for safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward
to claim his consignment, which has accumulated a
considerable amount of money in demurrage. Consequently, in our bid to
contact this client to redeem the demurrage which his consignment had
accumulated we discovered that our client is dead.
Since the death of our client who happens to be the late President of
the former republic of Zaire –(Chief President Mobutu Sesse seko), none
of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us,
which means that non of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of
this consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly open the
two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I
discovered that the two boxes that were registered as family treasures
by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in
United States Dollars amounting to about US$7million. Since this
development, I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from
enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of
money from his country while he was in office as head of state.
It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the
money that our client siphoned, and now that he is dead there is no
trace to this money in our care.
I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring
this money out of DAKAR to your country for immediate investment with
your assistance.
I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 30% of the
total amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness
to assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and
transfer all the rights of ownership of this consignment to your name
to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to
your country.
Secondly, I will arrange for the consignment already labelled as family
treasure to be lifted by diplomatic means to our security company\'s
correspondence in New York Or to any corresponding office near you,
. You have nothing to worry about, you have power and all the
necessary with all proper documentation
This transaction is 100% risk free.
Please maintain absolute confidentiality on this matter.
Thanks.
adamu lami
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