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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: Gillian Amani1 <gillian_amani1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:41:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Good assistance
Dear ,
My name is Miss Gillian Amani. I am the daughter of
the Late Mr. Clifford Amani.I am contacting you to
seek your good assistance to transfer and invest USD
$25 million belonging to my late father which is
deposited in a Bank here in Accra-Ghana. According to
my Mother, Daddy earned this money as revenues from
solid minerals and diamonds sale.
Following the brake out of the war, almost all
government offices, corporations and parastatals were
attacked and vandalized. The SLBMC (the Company which
my Daddy was a Managing Director to by then) was
looted and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth
millions of dollars were stolen by the rebel military
forces who attacked my fathers office. My father was a
key target because of his very sensitive military
position and appointment in the SLBMC. Sadly, my
father was captured and murdered along with h
is half brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel
shoot-out when Foday Sanko the notorious rebel leader
ambushed our official residence in Freetown.
My mother sustained very severe bullet injuries, which
resulted to her untimely and painful death in a
private hospital here in Accra-Ghana. Now I am alone
in a totally strange country without parents,
relatives or anybody to care for me at my tender age
It was before the death of my mother that, she told me
my father deposited some money which he made from
diamond sales and contract at a Bank here in
Accra-Ghana and that I should pray and find a trust
worthy foreigner who would help me to transfer and
invest this money in profitable business venture
overseas. She told me to do this quickly so that I can
leave Ghana to enable me move out of the refugee camp
then settle down abroad.
She gave me all the Lodgement document to prove to the
Bank and then told me that my father used my name as
the only person who has the right to choose the
next-of-kin to the deposit.
If you are willing to assist me, please let me know
immediately and provide me with your following
information:
1. Your full names and address.
2. Your Telephone and Fax Numbers
Please note that I will be presenting you as the
next-of-kin since I am 18 years old and still a
student. I have also decided to offer you 30% of the
total money as a token of appreciation when the money
is transferred to you successfully
I am hoping to hear your urgent response.
Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.
Miss. Gillian Amani
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