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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: "Opa Kante" <opakante@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:36:18 +0000
Subject: God Bless you
Dear Friend,
I was in Paris but my father instructed that I come back to Abidjan, ivory
coast in west Africa in order to be close to him and that's where I am
writing you this important mail and I sincerely hope that you will
understand the urgency in my mail and respond accordingly.
It’s not easy to trust a you with such task that I am about to confide and
trust in your care but if you're conversant with recent political
happenings in COTE
D'IVOIRE (IVORY COAST) you will appreciate my situation and the need for me
to leave here immediately. You have a nice profile and I have
confidence in your ability to guide me.
I am OPA KANTE; my late father Dr. Olivier KANTE was a wealthy cocoa
merchant and the director of the cocoa exporting board. The government
accused my father that he was using his influence in the cocoa industry to
block the government’s access to cocoa union's money and so the government
used her killer squad to liquidate my family but I was in school and had to
be taken away by the pastor who was
a close friend to my father. Few weeks before his death, my father
presented me with the documents of the sum of eighteen million five hundred
thousand US dollars (US$18,500.000.00) he deposited in one of the prime
banks here in Abidjan,
that he used my name as his oldest child for the next of kin in depositing
the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this money that the
president was annoyed with him and that incase something happens to him that
I should migrate to Europe or USA and invest the money there. I want you to
do the following
things:
1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 19 years old and will
go to school.
2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and to secure a resident permit for me in your country. And to
make plans for investment, Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the
total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful
transfer of this fund into your account
overseas.
Please do reply with your full names, and your telephone and fax numbers so
that I will submit them to the bank for the bank to contact you.
Upon your agreement to help me, I will then send you my late father's
photo, his funeral photo and my photo. Please don't forget to send your
telephone and fax numbers to enable the bank contact
you officially. Call me at: +22507663175.
Please take care of your self for me.
Thanks and God bless.
OPA
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