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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: "agnes khobe" <akhobe2005@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:17:31 +0000
Subject: FROM MRS AGNES KHOBE
FROM MRS AGNES KHOBE.
DEAR BELOVED FRIEND
This business proposal to you is strictly confidential,
with due respect. Sorry at this
perceived confusion or stress 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.By way
of self introduction, I am Mrs.Agnes Khobe, the wife of
late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY
COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force
in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in
obnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in
the hands of my late husband's family, simply because
I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my
late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And
myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken
all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including treasures, houses and his bank particular
seized by them. I wanted to escape to your country with my
children on exile, but again
they conspired and stole my international passport and
other traveling document to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code
from a Security Company IN ONE OF THE EUROPIAN STATE that
my late husband deposited U.S $35.5 Million 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 in a reliable bank
Account (presumably an empty Bank Account, if available)
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 an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE"
with the Security Company in EUROPE to avoid detection,
seizure or diversion. I have had several telephone
discussions with the Assistant Director of the security
company in EUROPE, who has express willingness to help me
on meeting the company's demands. This is why I have
contacted you to help save my children and I, receive 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. My children and I have resolved to give
you 30% 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 look forward to your
urgent response, including your full mailling address
indicate your private phone / mobile
No and also your fax no for easier communication.
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code)
for this fund are safely kept with me which I can give
you as soon as you express desire to help me.
Stay blessed.
MRS AGNES KOBE
PLEASE LET ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENT BE HERE FOR SECURITY REASONS.
agnesfamily@eriga.lv
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