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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: "joykobe22@ommail.com" <joykobe22@ommail.com>
Reply-To: joykobe22@3xl.net
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:48:59 -0500
Subject: dear one kindly help me.
ATTN: Dearly Beloved,
This communication to you is strictly confidential, with due
respect.
Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress you may have
receiving
this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or
met previously.
Despite that, I am constrained to write you this letter
because of the
urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Joy
Kobe, the wife
of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY
COMMANDER [West African peace keeping force in Sierra
Leone] who died
in the Sierra Leone civil disturbance [War]. My three
daughters and I are
trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the
hands of
my late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a
male child
[heir apparent] for my late husband. By tradition, all that
my late husband
had! , [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And myself
is to be
remarried by his immediate younger brother which I
vehemently refused.
They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to
acquire including
treasures,houses and his bank particular seized by them. I
wanted to escape to
the United State of America [USA} with my children on
exile, but again they
conspired and stole my international passport and other
traveling document
to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC}
from a security &
Finance Company abroad, that my late husband maintains
asaftey eposit
box of high value with this company and i am the next of kin
so there fore i
should make necessary arrangements to come for the claim of
the box .
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to
contact someone,
a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure the
consignment while we i
and my children find a way o! f getting out to meet with you
in your country.
The consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE"
with the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure or
diversion.
I have had several telephone discussions with the Assistant
Director of the
security company, who has expressed willingness to help me
on meeting
the company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to
help save my
children and I, receive/secure the safety box on our behalf.
But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if
you help me, you
would not divert its contents which i will reveal to you as
this is an information
known only to me and no one else.
My children and I have resolved to give you a certain
percentage for your
honest assistance to us and i shall open up to you as i have
to be careful
for this is the only way i and my children stand to live
better lives.
This is all my children and I have got to live on.
Please! , I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you
will not
disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response,
including your
private phone / mobile No and also your fax no for easier
communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code) for
the box are
safely kept with me which I will give you as soon as you
express desire
to help me.
Stay blessed.
MRS. JOY KOBE.
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