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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: "Lilian Kobe" <luskobe@imagix.tv> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:25:02 +0200
Subject: YOUR URGENT ATTENTION IS NEEDED PLEASE
Dear Sir/Madam,
This business proposal 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.
I am Mrs. Lilian Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell J. Kobe former ECOMOG [West African peacekeeping force] commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom traditional rites. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late husbands family, simple because I did not bear a male child for my late husband By tradition, all that my husband had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family and myself is to be married by his
immediate younger brother. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank accounts closed 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 documents to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC} from a security and investment house in Europe, that my husband deposited U.S $10 Million [Ten Million States Dollars] cash with this company. It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone, a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these funds overseas and to help invest it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.
These funds are kept on a CODE with the Securities Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had several telephone discussions with the Contact Person of the Security Company, who has express willingness to help me on meeting the company’s demand. This is why I have contacted you to help save my children and I, by receiving these funds on our behalf. But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would not divert the funds. I have resolved
to give you 20% of the total sum. 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 will forward you the information of their contact person for you to contact him and ask him the possibility of receiving this fund on our behalf as the sole beneficiary.
I look forward to your urgent response. Please for security reasons, reply only through this email address: luskobe@imagix.tv
Best Personal Regards.
Mrs. Lilian Khobe.
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