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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: "FROM JOHN AND MOTHER" <j_williams2200312@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: j_williams220031@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:24:06 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR RESPONSE
FROM : JOHN AND MY MOTHER
ABIDJAN COTE 'D IVOIRE
WEST AFRICA.
Email, j_williams220031@yahoo.fr
DEAR ,
IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WRITE TO YOU AFTER OUR SEVEN
DAYS FASTING AND PRAYERS, l AM JOHN WILLIAMS THE
SON OF LATE MR ALFRED N. WILLIAMS FROM REPUBLIQUE DU
CONGO, I AM 27 YEARS OF AGE, MY FATHER OWNS A LIMITED
OF COCOA AND GOLD BUSINESS IN REPUBLIQUE DU CONGO MY
COUNTRY.
AFTER HIS TRIP TO ABIDJAN COTE D'IVIORE TO NEGOTIATE
ON A COCOA AND GOLD BUSINESS HE WANTED TO INVEST IN
ABIDJAN . ONE WEEK HE CAME BACK FROM HIS TRIP TO
ABIDJAN HE HAD A MOTOR ACCIDENT WITH MY SISTER WHICH
MY SISTER DIED INSTANTLY BUT MY FATHER DIED AFTER FIVE
DAYS IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL IN MY COUNTRY .
IT WAS LIKE MY FATHER KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DIE "MAY
HIS GENTLE SOUL REST IN PREFECT PEACE" . HE DISCLOSED
TO MY MOTHER AND I THAT HE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF ($
10,500,000) TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS INTO ONE OF THE BANK IN COTE D?IVIORE
THAT THE MONEY WAS MEANT FOR HIS COCOA AND GOLD
BUSINESS HE WANTED TO ESTABLISH IN ABIDJAN.
MY FATHER HANDED ME THE DOCUMENTS COVERING THE
LODGMENT AND INSTRUCTED ME AND MY MOTHER TO SEEK FOR A
RELIABLE AND TRUST WORTHY PARTNER FOR OUR LIFE TIME
INVESTMENT THAT IS WHY I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU , NOW
I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN LOCATING THE BANK HERE IN ABIDJAN
AND I HAVE CONCLUDED WITH THE BANK MODALITIES OF
TRANSFERRING THE MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT ABROAD BECAUSE OF
THE AGREEMENT THE BANK REACH WITH MY LATE FATHER .
NOW I AM SOLICITING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO HELP ME
PROVIDE AN ACCOUNT FACILITY WHERE I CAN TRANSFER THE
MONEY INTO SO THAT WE CAN INVEST IT IN ANY LUCRATIVE
BUSINESS IN YOUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THIS IS MY ONLY HOPE
IN LIFE ,MY MOTHER AND I HAVE PROMISED TO GRATIFY YOU
WITH 10% OF THE TOTAL SUM FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE.
I AM WAITING ANXIOUSLY TO HEAR FROM YOU SO THAT WE
CAN DISCUSS THE MODALITIES OF THIS TRANSACTION YOU CAN
CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY FOR MORE DISCUSSION.
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE
YOURS SINCERELY
JOHN AND HIS MOTHER
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