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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: "marc duchene" <duchene@u-s-a-mareines.org>
Reply-To: marcd@lifegate.it
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:10:48 +0000
Subject: From: Marc In Iraq
Dear Sir,
With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage to
contact you.
Presently working in Iraq with an international organisation that I
will disclose to you later, I found your contact particulars in an
address journal.
I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $28,500,000 (Twenty
eight million, five hundred thousand dollars) all in US$100 bills out
of here to a safe country , in as much as you can assure me that my own
share will be safe in your care untill I complete my service here. This
is no stolen money, and there are no dangers involved.
SOURCE OF MONEY:
During the war, Some money in various currencies was asked to be packed
in barrels with piles of weapons and ammunitions at a location near one
of Saddam,s old palaces during a rescue operation, and it was agreed by
all party present that the money will be shared amongst us, this was
quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? no compensation can
make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this hell hole.
The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind
of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a female UN
contact working here , whose office enjoys some immunity, and was able
to get the packages(3 in No) to a safe location entirely out of trouble
spot, where they have been for the past 8 months, who of course did not
know the real contents and must not know, but believes that they belong
to an Asian American who died in an air raid, and before giving up,
trusted me to hand them over to his business associate in Europe.
I have now found a secured way of getting the package out to Europe for
you to pick up, and will discuss this with you when I am sure of your
sincerity in this.
I shall be compensating you with 5 Million Dollars on final conclusion
of this project, while the rest shall be for me.Your share stays with
you while the rest shall be for me for investment purposes.
One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter
with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer,please
destroy this mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad
for me.
I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have survived 2
suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God, this and other
reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I
honestly want this matter to be resolved immediately.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent
mail:
so we can discuss more.
Respectfully,
Sgt. Marc Duchene
US MARINE - "IRAQ"
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