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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: "JOHN EVANS ." <john_evans12@msn.com>
Reply-To: john_evans12@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:48:01 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL MATTER...WE CAN DO THIS.
Dear Walter,
I know this mail will surely come to you as a surprise ,considering that we
dont know each other and i must apologize for any embarrassment this may
havecaused you . Although you are not the only person whose name and email
address is listed on the internet fromwhere i got your contact,but i took
some factors into cosideration before arriving at the decision to contact
you.
For purpose of introduction,i am John Evans an attorney at law and
practicing in Accra Ghana,West
Africa.I am Attorney to Late Mr.Robert J.Clark, an expatriate who was
resident in Ghana for several years before his demise early this year from
CARDIAC-ARREST.He had a heart attack following the sad news of the death of
his beloved wife and children during the recent Tsunami disaster while on
vacation in thailand .
My client was a very wealthy man,he made fortune for himself from the
exportation of Cocoa and Raw-Gold,he had almost comleted arrangement to buy
shares in one of the leading Petroleum Industry in our neighbouring country
Nigeria to which he made a deposit of USD 20,500,000.00 in one of the
commercial banks in Nigeria,before this sad incident. So far my effort to
recover the deposit yeilded no result as the management of the bank insisted
they will only release the fund to the deceased surviving relatives whereby
his wife and children who statutorily would have inherited the money are no
more.
To futher compound the situation,while the deceased was alive he confided in
me that he was raised up in an orphanage have been abandoned at birth .So
for all i know he has no extended relation i can reach,the only family he
had to the bes of my knowledge are all dead .Therefore what really motivated
me in contacting you is the similarity in your last name with my deceased
client though,it does not suggest you are related.Be that as it may ,i wish
to solicit for your co-operation in assisting me recover the fund by
permitting me present you as a relation to the deceased.Iam very convinced
that it would workout,i have spent a lot of money lobbing people that
mattersin the bank and i dont envisage any problem.
Iwant to assure you that your effort will beadequately rewarded.You will be
entitled to 40%of the total sum involved and the same is applicable to me
,while the rest will be donated to Tsunami Relief Fund in memory of the
deceased family.Please notify me if you are interested and for your
information ,i have with me the requisite documents to substanciate the
claim.
I await your response. You can alsoreach me through my altanative email
(john_evans12@hotmail.com)
John Evans ESQ.
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