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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: "MISS MARIAM ODINGA" <mariamodinga21@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:05:05 +0000
Subject: Please Can I Give You This Trust....?
Dear Sir/M,
I Know that this way of communication is not the most secured channel to
pass a message of this importance but right now it is the quickest means
available to me,please bear with me.
My name is Miss Mariam Odinga, the daughter of Mr.Behki Odinga of blessed
memory from East Zimbabwe,Africa .During the crises against the farmers in
Zimbabwe from the supports of President Robert Mugabe to claim all the
white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all
white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members and his followers.
My father was One of the most successful multy farmers in our country then
and because he did not support
president Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my fathers
farms,destroyed and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away
with a lot of valuable items in the farms farm.
Before my fathers death, he had deposited in a bank in Malaysia the sum of
Six Million,five hundred thousand United states dollars. After the death of
my father a lot of cold killings and destruction ontinued, then the red
cross society of Zimbabwe took me and arranged my re-location to London
under political asylum as a refugee. Now i am in a refugee camp in London
seeking for foriegn patner overseas that will assist me to recieve the money
in Malaysia bank in his account and
also secure my freedom from this refugee camp because i have made up my mind
that i cannot continue to live in this camp and i have made up my mind that
i cannot live in Britain . As an asylum seeker i am not allowed by law to
operate any bank account or involve in any moneytary transaction . I am my
late fathers next of kin and i have all vital documents regarding the
deposit of the money in Malaysia After transfer,when you receive the money
in your account in your country,you will take 10% of the total money for
your sincere assistance and 5% of the money will be set aside to offset all
expences and taxes that may likely be incured in the course of the
transaction. You will as well assist me in any area of making profitable
investment with my own money.
I want truth,honesty and transparency to be our watch word in this
transaction and please treat this transaction with strict confidentiality
for successful out come of it. All I want you to do now is to furnish me
with your telephone number and your private e-mail address for easy and
urgent communication.I am willing to show you the vital deposit documents
for your assurance when you signify your interest to help me out.
Note:Importantly that this transaction is 100% risk free
and requires absolute confidentiality.
For security purpose this is my confidential E-mail
address:{mariamodinga@quick.cz}
Thanks and remain blessed.
Sincerely ,
Mariam Odinga.
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