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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "phillip bwadi" <mr_phillip03@hotmail.kg> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr_phillip@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:10:21 +0100
Subject: FOREIGN INVESTMENT.
ATTENTION: I AM A WELL ESTABLISHED CONSULTANT IN THE SUB-REGION, WEST AFRICA HANDLING A WIDE RANGE OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT MATTERS. JUST RECENTLY, I WAS CONSULTED AND MANDATED BY A TOP FEMALE CLIENT TO SOURCE FOR HER A RELIABLE FOREIGN PARTNER. WELL GOD BEING ON MY SIDE I HAVE JUST HAD A CONTRACT AND THAT-S TO SUPPLY FOOD TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN REFUGEES CAMP HERE IN GHANA. WELL ALONG THE LINE I MET A WOMAN CALLED MRS KAIYAMBA AND HER SON CALLED MAMBOLO KAIYAMBA AND A DAUGTHER WHO HAD BEEN SEEING ME WITH A WHITE MAN, WHO HAPPENS TO BE THEIR DOCTOR, WHO HAVE BEEN TREATING THE REFUGEES IN THE CAMP. SO THEY LATER ON TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD THIS HUGE SUM OF MONEY AND THAT IF I CAN FIND THEM A WELL TRUSTED AND RELIABLE PERSON WHO CAN HELP THEM INVEST THE MONEY IN A COUNTRY THAT IS POLITICALLY STABLE THAT HAS AN EXCELLENT CLIMATE AND ALSO A TOP PERSONALITY BY WHOM INVESTMENT ON A LARGE SCALE COULD BE HANDLED, BECAUSE THAT PLACE IS MORE SAFE TO LIVE. I J!
UST WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE CAPABLE TO ASSIST THEM TO INVEST THIS MONEY OR FIND A RELIABLE AND A TRUST WORTHY PERSON WHO YOU THINK OF, THEN WRITE TO ME SO THAT I CAN GET BACK TO THEM. AM WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. YOURS SINCERELY, MR PHILLIP BWADI.
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