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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: "lbchristopher2@ommail.com" <louisa1988@sify.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:55:53 -1200
Subject: FROM MISS LOUISA B. CHRISTOPHER
FROM MISS LOUISA B. CHRISTOPHER
MISSIONARY QUARTERS A15
CHURCH ROAD ACCRA GHANA
EMAIL: louisa1988@sify.com.
Dear respectful one,
I feel good contacting you today knowing quite well that
this contact will bring a lasting relationship. With regard
to your reputation and co-worshipper of God who will not
disappoint me nor deny me in faith, I am directing this
letter of assistance to you.
I am Miss Louisa Christopher the only daughter of Mr.
Christopher from Republic of Zimbabwe in desire to get
somebody who will safe-guard my interest, that of my younger
brother (Louis) and this money. Briefly, our father Mr.
Christopher was a gold and Cocoa merchant who based in Lome
Togo, and later Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire, and had a branch
office here in Accra Ghana. My father was a wealthy
Gold/Cocoa merchant who had business in many countries in
Europe, America and Asian countries. According to my father,
my own mother died when I was about six years of age, which
means that I did not even know my mother very well. The
story is that my father Mr. Christopher was Poisoned to
death by his business associates about seven months ago, and
he died in a private hospital here in Accra Ghana.
But when he was about to die, he called us beside his sick
bed and told us that he deposited the sum of Two Million
seven hundred thousand United State Dollars (US$2.7M) with a
local bank there in Accra, the economic and administrative
capital of Republic of Ghana. This money was kept for us in
my name, his only daughter. Right now I am a first year
student of business management in one of the Universities
here. My only problem now is that since my father has been
poisoned to death by his business associates, I don't even
trust any other person here again including my father's
brothers and sisters. Right now, I want you to help us in
the following ways:
1) I want you to provide a personal/company's bank account
where this amount here (US$2.7M) can be transferred.
2) You are going to be the manager of this fund and also my
personal guardian until I finish my studies.
3) You are going to procure admission for us to continue our
studies in one of the known
universities in your country.
4) You are going to receive 15% of the total sum for
providing a bank account for this
transfer.
5) That you must prepare immediately to make a working visit
to ACCRA GHANA here so that me and you can see each other
and we can then do the transfer at the same time and I will
go back with you to your country.
We hope to receive your early response, as it will encourage
us, to stop establishing
further contacts as regards to this subject matters, so that
we will furnish you With a private phone number where you
can reach us direct, on receipt of your positive response.
For your information, this place we are staying now is a
house of a church sister who saw our condition and decided
to house us for a while.
THIS BUSINESS IS HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE NONE OF OUR
LATE FATHER'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS KNOWS ABOUT THIS
TRANSACTION.
Thanks for your understanding. Please respond to my secure
email: louisa1988@sify.com.
Miss L.B. Christopher
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