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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: "leonard lucas" <leonardlucas@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: leonardlucas1@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:18:30 +0000
Subject: MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU
Dear Friend,
May the peace of the lord be with you.My name is Leonard Lucas (Jnr).I am
sending you this mail with grief and sorrow in my heart because I am being
subjected to physical and psychological trauma by my own blood brothers.
I am the first son of late Chief Leonad Lucas(Snr) who died last year from
heart failure in a London hospital.Before his death,he was the traditional
ruler of Bonni Island in south-south geopolitical region in Nigeria that is
enriched with oil.Due to youth's restiveness in my town,the multinational
oil companies operating in my town pays huge sums of money to the town
through my father who happened to be the traditional ruler.He was also being
paid a huge sum of money by the oil companies as the traditional ruler.
When I was young,I had an accident with my late mother who died instantly in
the auto crash.Both of my legs were amputated due to the accident.My father
then married another wife.When my father died,he willed the sum of $2.5m(two
millon,five hundred thousand united states dollars) to me simply because he
envisaged what I am going to face in the hands of my half brothers.Ever
since my father died,i have not had peace because my half brothers are
trying to claim everything which my late father left behind saying that am a
cripped man and that am of no use to the family.I have to let you know that
these my brothers are evils and ready to kill.I have surrendered all my late
father's company papers to them just to let peace come into the family but
to no avail.The money he willed to me is unknown to my brothers and i have
decided to leave this country for good in other to be alive and invest the
money
in another country.
I therefore, solicit for your help to make it possible for me to transfer
this fund to your country and invest there.I promise you 35% of the total
sum and i will also set aside 10% for a joint venture with you if you help
me in this my problem.
What I need from you now are-:
1)Your personal telephone number.
2)Your name and contact address.
I await eagerly to hear from you.God bless you as you help the needy ones.
Sincerely Yours,
Leonard Lucas(Jnr)
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