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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: "Mr. Mike Connolly" <daddykings@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ensaidi@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 05:34:54 -0700
Subject: MY LAST HOPE IN LIFE
Attention Mr.Mike Connolly
From; Mrs Esther Nsaidi
e-mail;ensaidi@yahoo.com
Topic; Notification Letter on Celebrity
Investment
With regard to my need for an overseas partner to be
trusted in confidence I crave your indulgence as i
contact you in such a surprising manner regarding
what is currently happening in Sudan Darfur the
killing of over 400,000 people and
the misery of up to 2Million people living without
shelter and food Please check your CNN News Network
for confirmation I am the wife of Mr Benjamin Nsaidi
the Founder and Chairman of MANDEX OIL EXPORT IN
SUDAN.
My Husband was killed along with my two children we
have to fleed the Country We are in the Refuge Camp In
Accra.
Before My Husband was killed he deposited the sum of
$55 Million United States Dollars with a Company in
LONDON, Please I need your Help to receive this money
in your account and to invest with you in your
business
and to enable me come over to your Country.
Please help me and my only surviving
son David we are facing problems and we are not
comfortabale
here in the refuge camp
The Sudan crisis is all over the news people are still
dieing every day
I am soliciting for your assistance as an honest,
gentle and trustworthy foreign partner to kindly
assist me claim my money on my behalf from the
Company in London you shall be entitled to
20% of the total amount for your assistance,
while the remaining 80%
shall be invested or any profitable
business ventures in your Country
I am here with only my cloths and me and my son have
to beg to feed and The United Nation Have been
supplying
us with some properties I manage to come to the city
to send you this message please help me as this
transaction is my only hope
in life. this is because i would like to reside and
settle in your Country.As am tried of miserable life
in Africa you should communicate to me
through my private e-mail address Please you should
keep this business very confidencial
As this is my only hope in life. you can reply
through my private email;ensaidi@yahoo.com
Most importantly, acknowledge
receipt to this proposal.
Best regards,
Mrs Esther Nsaidi
email;ensaidi@yahoo.com
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