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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: "Patricia Monfort" <patsusan_monfort@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:57:27 +0200
Subject: Do Get Back To Me
Dear,
It is my privilege to write you. My name is Susan Patricia Monfort, wife to late Mr. Michael Monfort, national of South Africa, who was an international cricket player, subsequently died on 1st June 2002 at the age of 35, when the aircraft he was aboard crashed into a hill in a bad weather near his home town George 350 km [220 miles] east of Cape Town.
I am convinced that it is the grace of God that made me to get your contact. I am writing you this letter with strong faith believing that you will understand my plight and be of great assistance to me.
My husband was a successful and accomplished family man, who made enough fortune before his untimely death. Before the death of my husband he had taken me to Johannesburg city of South Africa where he deposited the sum of Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State dollars ($14,500,000.00) in a private security company, as if he foresaw the looming danger coming his way. This money was actually meant for the purchase of new machinery, equipment and chemicals for the new farm he was about to establish in a relatively, political / economically stable Swaziland country.
I am now saddled with the responsibility of seeking for a genuine foreign account where this money could be transferred. Based on the fact that my husbands relatives are bent on taking everything out of my hand, I therefore cannot make use of this money within as it is traditionally believed that the relatives of the deceased takes care and controls his wealth and properties including his wife(s), of which they have already taken possession of his properties and are gradually shearing it among themselves, but I’ve sworn that none of them will control me nor come into my life. Though at present no one knew about this money, all the documents are intact with me.
I therefore decided to contact you, seeking for your honest and sincere assistance in getting the said funds into your country on my behalf for investment purpose.
I beg for your Understanding and do keep this as confidential, as I expect your urgent still candid response.
My Best Regards,
Mrs. Patricia Monfort
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