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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: "George M. Doe" <g_doe2@uniglobefinance.com>
Reply-To: g_doe3@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:29:16 +0000
Subject: TRUE LIFE STORY(Read and get back to me)
TRUE LIFE STORY
Life in my rural area, Ganta in The Nimba County of Liberia, was enjoyable
and offered all the promises that could be expected by a young man of my
age. The environment was peaceful except for the intermittent interferences
of law enforcement agents looking for illegal diamond miners. I nursed the
ambition of travelling to Monrovia after my college education where I hoped
to read law and international relations
In March 1991, everything about my ambition changed with the formaton of the
United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), under the
leadership of Alhaji Kromah, a former official of the Doe Administration.
This rebel group was one of the most brutal organizations in Liberia. In
March 1993, the rebel group summerilly executed my younger brother; they
beheaded my uncle for refusing to be drafted into the rebel force. They
looted the property of a Lebanese national named Hassan Taggedine, and
executed him. In November 1992, five innocent American nuns of the "Precious
Blood Order," were brutally murdered. Some of the people had their ears and
hands cut off; the heart of murdered victims were removed and their villages
burnt.
In the midst of the ravaging hostilities, I was forcefully drafted into the
rebel force. As a result of my brilliance, I was bestowed with the
responsibility of handling our operational logistics and the procurement of
arms and ammunitions. While handling this position, I was directed to go to
Guinea, a neighbouring country, to pay for some arms shipment from France. I
was given the sum of $15 million for this operation. On our way, we were
attacked by the factions of Charles Taylor's more numerous Mano tribe. I was
fortunate to escape that assult, I defected with the funds and never paid
for the arms. I did this because I was fed up with the blood letting and
killings of Alhaji Koroma. I sneaked into Monrovia with a differnt name and
identity. With the end of hostilities following from the dismantling of the
Charles Taylor's regime, information filtered out to some loyalist of
Koromah that i am still alife. I have been in hiding and living in a refugee
camp to escape being killed by these loyalist of Kromah.
My problem now is the pressure from my bank, where the fund has been under a
different name, to have it relocated to a more secure place. It is my
intention to have the funds given to the victims of war once it is finaly
retrieved from its present place. I am therefore soliciting your assistance
in having this fund moved out of my bank to an account abroad. Should this
meet your utmost consideration, let me know what you intend to receive as
your commission for your anticipated services in your response to this mail.
Feel free to ask questions you consider necessary in this transaction.
George T. Doe
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