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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: paulthomas@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:37:44 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DEAR=20FRIEND?=
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR
COUNTRY:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? I got your contact from the
internet.Permit me to inform you of my desire to ask you to be a guardian
or foster parent to me and then help me out in what I'm about to tell you.I'm
Paul Thomas(22 years) I,m the only son of Late Mr.& Mrs.Joseph Thomas. My
father was a very wealthy Oil Dealer here in Port Harcourt, the capital
of Rivers State,Nigeria. He was poisoned to death by his business associates
on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a
baby.
Before the death of my father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital, he secretly
called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Fifteen million
United State Dollars USD ($15m) deposited in one of the big bank here in
Nigeria. He told me that he used my name as the next of Kin in depositing
the money.He then strongly advised me to seek for a foreign partner from
a country of my choice (outside my country,Nigeria) that will assist me
in the wise investment of the money.He told me that all the necessary documents
covering the money is with his personal lawyer(Mr.Nicholas Chuka) who he
said will be of good help in the recovery of the fund from the security
company.I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose.
Because of this I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following
ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into
your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as my
guardian or foster parent,I need not to discuss on any percentage with you
as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me in investing
it. But if you still want a percentage,I am willing to offer you, 20 % of
the total money as compensation for your assistance.Please tell me if you
feel the percentage I offered is not ok by you.
As soon as I recieve your concret assurance to assist me with my proposal
and also your full contact address/phone number,I will then give the Lawyer
your contact information to hand you the documents with which to clear the
money from the bank and transfer it into your account.As soon as that is
done,I will then make plans to come over to join you parmanently albeit
with your help.I shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours
too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to keep
this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my
Daddy are still after me. Please reply me through my email address.
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Paul Thomas.
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