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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: =?us-ascii?Q?lanre=20williams?= <lanre@seznam.cz>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:10:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?FROM=20MR=20WILLIAMS?=
Dear Friend,
I sincerely hope that after you read this mail you will respond to my
call,let me start by introducing myself my name is Mr Lanre Wiiliams.
i'm 65 years old ,a Syrian living in Kano Nigeria. I am
a businessman , married with two
children.
My wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago but
before this happened my business and concern for making money was all
i lived for i never really cared about other values in life but since
the loss of my family, i have found a new desire to assist helpless
familes.
i have been helping orphans in motherless homes, i have donated some
money to orphans in sudan, south africa, cameroun,brazil, spain,
austria,germany and some asian countries.
Before i became ill, i kept some money, fifteen and a half million
dollars ($15.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in
a security company in Spain.
Presently, i'm in a hospital my doctor told me i have prostate cancer
that i have a few months to live.it is my last wish to see this money
distributed to charity organizations. because so much of my wealth has been plundered by
relatives and friends since my illness,hence i cannot live with the
agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them since the
money in the security company is the last fund that i have left.
Right now i am partialy stranded in the hospital due to the nature of
my sickness so i am appealing to you to help me collect the deposit
from the security company and distribute it amongst charity
organizations.
I would want you to use your discretion to distribute the money and
keep 10% of it for yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you
have the money for any cost you might have incured during the process
of collecting and distributing the money to charity organizations. May
the good Lord bless you and your family.
Please reply to this mail as i can only communicate through my laptop
which is by my bed,as
soon as i get your response i shall then give you the necessary
informations you need to
collect this money
With Regards,
Mr.Lanre Williams
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