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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 SAVIMBI" <johnsavimbi15@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnsavimbi40@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:06:51 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED FROM YOU
ATTN:MD/CEO
SIR,
I am a refugee at the Budumbura refugee camp here in Accra(Ghana).I got your contact from an email directory and decided to contact you for assistance. I am the son of Jonas Savimbi the rebel leader in Angola who was short dead on the 25th of February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan Army.Before the death of my father he had deposited the sum of $27,000,000.00(Twenty Seven Million Dollars)in a Security Company in West Africa (Ghana) Which all the legal documents for the deposit are with me which my father gave to me for safe keeping.
After the death of my father I and my family fled to West Africa (Ghana) where we are currently living. And we have been trying to fly out of Africa but it has been difficult for us to get visas from Africa. So we want you to help us make claims of this fund ($27M) in Ghana as my family beneficiary and transfer the money to your account or any account of your choice before I and my family can get visas to fly down to your country so that we can share this money.
My family have agreed to give you 10%, which would be ($2.7 Million dollars)of this Money for your assistance, and 87% would be for us and the other 3% would be set aside for any expenses that we may incure during the course of this transaction. And part of our
share of 87% would be invested in your country in any profitable business proposed by you.
While a large part of our share will also be used to help charity organizations. We have never met, but I want to trust you and please do not let us down when this fund finally gets into your account.And I want you to promise me that you will not run away with the money or sit on it.
Please if you are interested; get to me through my email address to enable me feed you with more details and all necessary documentations.Please treat this as confidential
Regards
JOHN SAVIMBI
N/B THIS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS( johnsavimbi15@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:johnsavimbi15@yahoo.co.uk>)
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