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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 Langley" <william_langley@terra.es> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:29:43 +0100
Subject: Study Carefully.
Hello,
I know this mail may come to you as a surprise,considering the fact that we have not known ourselves
before.Nevertheless,I got to know of you during my eager search for a reputable and reliable person who
can assist me in a financial issue of this magnitude.
I am Langley Williams,the only son of late chief Joseph Alfred Williams from Sierra Leone.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to claim two boxes containing a
total sum of twenty one million dollars($21,000,000)which was deposited in a
security company in Europe as family valuables,diamonds and precious stones by my late
fahter.
In case you want to know the source of the money,my late father,Chief Joseph Alfred Williams,was
a native of mende district in the Northern province of Sierra Leone.He was the general Manager of Sierra
Leone mining corperation (S.L.M.C.)in Freetown.According to my father,this money was the income
accrued from over invoiced sales from the corperation.
During the civil war between the rebel forces of major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of
ECOMOG peace keeping operations that almost destroyed my country,following the forceful removal from
power of the Civilian Elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels and following the
indiscriminate looting of public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone mining
corperation was one of the targets looted and destroyed.My father including other top Government
functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of his relationship with the civilian
Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
As a result of my father's death,and the news of my uncle's involvement in an air crash,our hope of
survival was dashed. The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related
complications which later led to her sudden death. I and my junior sister then decided to relocate to
London where we now presently live without any care or help from any relation - we are now orphans
living like refugees in another man'sland. Our only hope now is in that money in those boxes deposited in
the security company.To this effect,I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways:
(1)To assist me in claiming these boxes from the security company as a foreign partner/beneficiary and
subsequently transfer this money into your
account in your country and finally make arrangement for our travelling documents to your country after
you have transferred this fund.
(2)To send to me your detail information(your names,address,telephone and fax numbers so i can forward
them to my Lawyer to raise a power of attorney to you which will put you in place as the new legal
beneficiary of the boxes.I have all the necessary documents relating to this transaction in my custody.
I promise to offer you 20% of the toal money upon completion of the transaction,but note that the security
company is not aware of the money inside. All they know is that the boxes contains family
valuables,diamonds and precious stones. So just feel free to help out in this venture as it has no risk
attached to it - you will be glad you did.
I am anxiously waiting for your urgent response.
My Best regards,
Langley Williams.
INVESTMENT AGREEMENT
An agreement made between William Langley of Serria Leone
a (Hereafter called the Principle) of the first party
and ............................... who is (Hereafter called the
Partner) the second party. Both parties have decided to co-operate in
order to execute an investment beneficial to both parties. In pursuance
of the above, the following Agreement is reached between both parties.
SECTION ONE: FACTS
(a)
The agreement plan will cover letting/leasing/purchase of property and
to be domiciled in the ........................ The principle (William Langley
) has mandated the partner ..................... to invest
the sum of US$21 million (TWENTY ONE MILLION, UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in
The .................. for the porpose of the above
mentioned investment for a period of ten years after which the Agreement
will be renewed.
(b)
The principle William Langle entrusted by his clients resources with
the sum of (US$21 million (EUS$21 million UNITED STATES DOLLARS) for
the purposes of investment on properties, do hereby
declare by intent and in good faith, seek the assistance and services of
the partner ........................... of the address in the
...................... to make the overseas investment on properties.
(c)
Any investment to be effected by the partner...................... shall
be subject to previous agreement modalities of which, shall be discussed
and decided by both parties. The investor William Langley has requested
the partner to provide the above A, and B services and the partner
.......................... agreed to do so.
NOW IT IS HEREBY MUTUALLY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION TWO:
MODALITIES:
(a)
The partner ............................. has to provide his personal
bank account in ................... where the investor will transfer the
fund (b) The partner ................ shall use his real estate
expertise to transact / buying and/or selling real estate properties.
Sixty - five per cent (65%) of the 8.7M USD will be used by the Partner
...................... of .................. to conduct these real
estate investment/ transactions. However, the partner
............................. shall not be responsible for the
devaluation of the funds resulting from acts beyond any reasonable
control of either party. Such acts should include, but not be limited to
the economic recession/depression or stock crises, acts of God, strikes,
walkouts, riots, acts of war, epidemic, failure of suppliers to perform,
government regulation, power failure, earthquakes or other disasters.
{c)
This agreement shall be governed and enforced in accordance to the
principles of international business partnership laws. In any dispute(s)
by either party arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be
litigated in ................................ The partner shall not be
held responsible for the origin of the fund. This Agreement will be
effective and held as a binding instrument of litigation or redress
between both parties.
SECTION THREE:
(a)
On the endorsement of this agreement the principle .......................
of ................has agreed for the title of 20% (twenty- percent) of
ratio of the total fund , from the capital base of this joint venture
being his expatriate entitlement. (b) 5% of the fund has been set aside
to cover all ancillary expenses that might been incurred by the partner
as added security or logistics while the fund is on transit to
....................... . These include any charges or taxes as required
by international monetary security or banking policies to guaranty safe
arrival of fund to ................. This five percent (5%) is considered
source of reimbursement to cover such expenses and not negotiable shall
be deducted from the seventy - per cent ( 75%) of William Langley
SECTION FOUR: DISPUTES ETHICS:
This Agreement is governed by and interpreted according to the laws of
the recipient and the parties hereby agree to submit to the jurisdiction
of the courts of ............................. in connection with any
disputes arising forthwith. This Agreement is made in good faith, and
valid for litigation that can only serve as a binding instrument between
both under stated parties. In the event of death or
misfortune/unforeseen health condition, the will of either party can
serve as point of reference and redress of title to their heir or next
of kin.
SIGNED,........... ..... This................Day
of............................
FULL MAILING Address................................
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