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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: samweah_addo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:54:53 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WAITING=20=20FOR=20=20YOUR=20=20RESPONSE?=
FROM SAM WEAH ADDO
E-MAIL;samweah_addo@zipmail.com.br
Hello
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction
and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval
considering the facts we have not known each other before; I wish to use
this opportunity to introduce myself to you.
I am (Sam waeh Addo) from Liberia, West Africa. I write to inform you of
my desire to invest, in your country. I am the first son of Mr. Opong Weah
Addo; my father was a chairman of the diamond/gold feild in my country but
now he is late due to an uproar in may country some years back he was shot
by the rebels with my younger sister after some time I and my mothere was
force to leave the country for our own dear lieves and come down to country
Ghana for selfty, now staying in the refugee camp.
In the couse of my father's been the chairman of the Diamond/Gold feild
of my country he secretely deposited a huge some of money [twenty-six million
US dollars] outside the country to a nearby country Ghana in a security
company and that is why we have to take refuge here but the problem now
is because of the countries national policies and the financial deficency
of my family as at now we can not go for the fund due to our status as refugee
and moreover my mother will not want the family's name to be exposed,so
I contact you for an assistance in order to come and release this consigment
from the security company because my late father deposited this consignment
as tresuries for his foreign patner.I want you to come and act as my father's
foreign patner as every of the document relating to the deposit is with
my mother and we can forward it to you on demand.
Meanwhile to secure all things we will employ the services of a lawyer who
will authenticate all things by providing all legal documents needed and
to obtain an affidavits from the high court which now empower you as the
beneficiary to the consignment at the security company office bear in mind
that your presence will be needed here during the couse of this release
wher you will be
accomplained by the lawyer.
upon your acceptance to this mail a 35% interest of the total fund will
be mapped out for your assistance during the disbursement and 5% for any
expense you must have incure during this transaction.
I will really appreciate your gesture if you can contact me with the above
email or the alternative email below or you can reach me with this phone
number below so that we can discuss and for me to send the documents for
you view,nothing forgetting to attach you contact numbers [direct phone
and fax] for an easier communication and sending of the documents.[samweah_addo@zipmail.com.br]Please
I strictly confind in you and with trust for su.port in order for to achive
this.
GOD bless,
yours,
Sam Weah Addo.
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