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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: "WILLIAM" <kojjwill2005@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:25:58 +0000
Subject: Hello
Hello ,
Please this is confidential...
My name is Kojo William, the adopted son of late Mr.Kofi Williams, the formal bank manager of Eco-bank of
Africa for the period of 9 years.
The resent 26th December 2004 earthquake disaster of Asia that claims the life of many people also claimed
the life of my father on his December 24th trip to visit his business partner for investment in Asia
Indonesia. I have a problem which I request your immediate support. Note that I am not asking you to
send me money; I am telling you something that is very important. I write to inform you my desire to buy a
landed property, and to invest in your country on a profitable business ventures having you as foreign
partner.
just last week when I was searching through my father's brief-case, I discovered a lot of documents
and one of the document reveals that my father has deposited a sealed metalic trunk box which contains
US$21.8M (twenty-one million and eight hundred thousand dollars) in a Security firm, here in
Accra-Ghana West African for safekeeping and my name is the next of kin. My father did not disclose the
contents of the box to the security firm; he only deposited it as family belonging to avoid the
officials of the security firm from raising eyebrow.
I have made an enquires about the deposit from the security firm yesterday, they told me that my age is
too small to make claims, and that I will have to bring someone older to retrieve the consignment. I
like your country, your country is my dream country where I will like us to invest this fund, and I
believe you are honest and serious people when it comes to agreement and business transaction and when
it comes to striking deals.I am seeking for your assistance to sponsor his transaction in which you
will come to my aid, so that we can meet ourselves face to face. This will give us the opportunity to
familiarize ourselves to go together to security firm and claim the consignment. I want you to stand for me
as a proxy person that's my late father's foreign business partner so as to get the fund out of the
security firm and to transfer it to your bank account in your country where we can make use of it in
lucrative business investment in your country.Moreso, before my father died he used tells me it is
dangerous to invest such amount in Africa to avoid suspicion and due to market instability coupled with
economic and political instability in African countries.
I don't want to reveal this secret to any members of the family because I don't trust them. They have
already betrayed me together with whom I called my mother; my adopted mother Mrs. Joyce Kofi. They said
I'm not the biological son of late Mr. Kofi William, the inhenritation will surely goes to my little
brothers, they said it' according to their tradition.
Sir, I am willing to offer you 15% from the total sum as compensation for your effort and 5% for your
expenses. Count yourself lucky my dear friend, but remember that we must strike this deal by its rule as
my father's spirit wishes me to negotiate with a reliable person that will help me claim this fund.
Nobody should cheat or have any bad plans against each other. If you do not have the capacity of bringing in
$21.8M into your account, then you have to look for somebody who is capable and whom you can trust, then
you will combine with him and meet me here in Ghana.
The transaction is only known by you and I. The secrecy and confidentiality of this transaction should
be maintained. It's a secret of my life. And it's the only thing from all of my father's wealth that I can
use to lay myself.
Indicate your fax and telephone number so that I can reach you when necessary and for more information.
Awaiting your urgent response.
Regards,
KOJO WILLIAM.
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